Screen LibraryShakespeare and the law : a conversation among disciplines and professions /
"William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life; trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philosophers, and even sitting judges, Shakespeare and...
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University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago, Illinois : |
| Publication Dates: |
2016. ©2013 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Paperback edition. |
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| Summary: |
"William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life; trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philosophers, and even sitting judges, Shakespeare and the Law demonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts and legal practice points to a deep and sometimes vexed engagement with the law's technical workings, its underlying premises, and its social effects. Shakespeare and the Law opens with three essays that provide useful frameworks fo |
| Item Description: | "This collection emerges out of a conference on 'Shakespeare and the law' held at the University of Chicago in spring 2009"--Introduction. |
| Carrier Form: | 335 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226378565 022637856X |
| Index Number: | PR3028 |
| CLC: | I561.073-532 |
| Call Number: | I561.073-532/S527/2016 |
| Contents: |
Introduction : Shakespeare and the law / Two differences between law and literature / Decision, possession : the time of law in The winter's tale and the sonnets / "Lively evidence" : legal inquiry and the evidentia of Shakespearean drama / Interpreting statute in Measure for measure / Vengeance, complicity, and criminal law in Othello / Law and commerce in The merchant of Venice / Opinion of Fried, J., conc |