Shakespeare and the Law.

Prelims -- Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- I Shakespeare, Money and the Law of Contract -- 1 Shakespeare and Specific Performance -- 2 Consideration, Contract and the End of The Comedy of Errors -- II Shakespeare, Women and the Law -- 3 The Bawdy Court -- 4 Shakespeare and the Marriage Contract -- 5 Judging Isabella: Justice, Care and Relationships in Measure for Measure -- III Shakespeare and the Law of Love -- 6 Shakespeare Possessed: Legal Affect and the Time of Holding -- 7 The Tragedy of Law in Shakespearean Romance -- 8 Law and its Subversion in Romeo and Juliet -- IV Justice and the Royal Prerogative -- 9 'The King is a Thing': the King's Prerogative and the Treasure of the Realm in Plowden's Report of the Case of Mines and Shakespeare's Hamlet -- 10 Inheritance in the Legal and Ideological Debate of Shakespeare's King Lear -- V Violence, the State and the Citizen -- 11 Punishment Theory in the Renaissance: the Law and the Drama -- 12 Terrorists and Equivocators -- 13 'Terras Astraea reliquit': Titus Andronicus and the Loss of Justice -- 14 Titus Andronicus vs Le More Cruel and Les Portugais Infortunés -- VI The Merchant of Venice and the Infinite Meanings of 'Law' -- 15 The Law of Dramatic Properties in The Merchant of Venice -- 16 Shylock in Transylvania: Anti-Semitism and the Law in East Central Europe -- 17 Shylock as a Politician -- 18 The Concept and Performance of 'The Code' in The Merchant of Venice -- Index.

This book explores and discusses Shakespeare's evident fascination with and knowledge of law, and its manifestation in his works.

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