Shakespeare and Law.
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- 9781408143599
- 822.33
- PR2894 -- .Z873 2010eb
Cover -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- Chapter One: Preamble: 'How shall I understand you?' -- Chapter Two: Shakespeare's Legal Life -- Chapter Three: The Love of Persons: Common Law and the Epistemology of Conscience in the Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint -- Chapter Four: Wasting Time: Conditionality and Prosperity in As You Like It and the Second Tetralogy -- Chapter Five: Rex v. Lex, or, the Proud Issue of a King -- Chapter Six: The Report of the Cause of Hamlet -- Chapter Seven: Codicil: the Maxim and the Analogy -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Andrew Zurcher takes a fresh, historically sensitive look at Shakespeare's meticulous resort to legal language, texts, concepts, and arguments in a range of plays and poems.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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