Shakespeare As A Lawyer

Author : Mark Fortier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000577389

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Shakespeare's Law by Mark Fortier Pdf

Shakespeare's Law is a critical overview of law and legal issues within the life, career, and works of William Shakespeare as well as those that arise from the endless array of activities that happen today in the name of Shakespeare. Mark Fortier argues that Shakespeare’s attitudes to law are complex and not always sanguine, that there exists a deep and perhaps ultimate move beyond law very different from what a lawyer or legal scholar might recognize. Fortier looks in detail at the legal issues most prominent across Shakespeare’s work: status, inheritance, fraud, property, contract, tort (especially slander), evidence, crime, political authority, trials, and the relative value of law and justice. He also includes two detailed case studies, of The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure, as well as a chapter looking at law in works by Shakespeare's contemporaries. The book concludes with a chapter on the law as it relates to Shakespeare today. The book shows that the legal issues in Shakespeare are often relevant to issues we face now, and the exploration of law in Shakespeare is as germane today, though in sometimes new ways, as in the past.

Author : Bradin Cormack,Martha C. Nussbaum,Richard Strier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226378565

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Shakespeare and the Law by Bradin Cormack,Martha C. Nussbaum,Richard Strier Pdf

"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 for approaching the topic, offering perspectives on law and literature that emphasize both the continuities and the contrasts between the two fields. In its second section, the book considers Shakespeare's awareness of common-law thinking and practice through examinations of Measure for Measure and Othello. Building and expanding on this question, the third part inquires into Shakespeare's general attitudes toward legal systems. A judge and former solicitor general rule on Shylock's demand for enforcement of his odd contract; and two essays by literary scholars take contrasting views on whether Shakespeare could imagine a functioning legal system. The fourth section looks at how law enters into conversation with issues of politics and community, both in the plays and in our own world. The volume concludes with a freewheeling colloquy among Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Richard A. Posner, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Strier that covers everything from the ghost in Hamlet to the nature of judicial discretion"--Jacket.

Author : O Hood Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135032739

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Shakespeare and the Lawyers by O Hood Phillips Pdf

First published in 1972. Shakespeare's writing abounds with legal terms and allusions and in many of the plays the concept and working of the law is a significant theme. Shakespeare and the Lawyers gives a comprehensive survey of what Shakespeare wrote about the law and lawyers, and what has been written, particularly by lawyers, about Shakespeare's life and works in relation to the law. The book first reviews the recorded facts about Shakespeare's life and works, and his connection with the Inns of Court. It then discusses legal terms, allusions and plots in the plays; Shakespeare's treatment of the problems of law, justice and government; his description of lawyers and officers of the law; his references to actual legal personalities; and his trial scenes. Two further chapters consider the criticisms that have been made of Shakespeare's law, and the contribution to Shakespeare studies by lawyers.

Author : C. Jordan,K. Cunningham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230626348

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The Law in Shakespeare by C. Jordan,K. Cunningham Pdf

Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare's plays to show how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creation and application of law. Individual essays focus on such topics such as slander, revenge, and royal prerogative; these studies reveal the problems confronting early modern English men and women.

Author : Margaret Graham Tebo
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law in literature
ISBN : 1604428368

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Shakespeare for Lawyers by Margaret Graham Tebo Pdf

Shakespeare for Lawyers contains more than 100 funny, sharp, witty, sad, and instructional quotes pulled from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets by a lawyer, for lawyers, and includes instructions on how they might be used in a courtroom, mediation, or elsewhere. And of course, the book features an extra section exploring what the Bard had to say about the law and those who practice it.

Author : William Shakespeare,George Steevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1786
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10749345

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Henry VI. Part III. by William Shakespeare,George Steevens Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare,Wayne F. Hill
Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Humor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060395311

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Shakespeare's Insults for Lawyers by William Shakespeare,Wayne F. Hill Pdf

Illustrated for those who believe that a picture is worth a thousand insults, Shakespeare's Insults for Lawyers offers over 190 of the funniest, most offensive remarks targeted toward the legal profession, including ready insults for clients to give to lawyers on counsel and advice, trial performance, and legal fees; and for lawyers to use on clients on threatening legal action, verdicts and sentences, and clients from hell. Hill and Ottchen even cull quotations for particular flaws found in all lawyers in categories that include verbose, tricky, incompetent, and vain.

Author : William Lowes Rushton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009633488

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Shakespeare a Lawyer by William Lowes Rushton Pdf

Author : Daniel Kornstein
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803278217

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Kill All the Lawyers? by Daniel Kornstein Pdf

Two-thirds of Shakespeare?s plays have trial scenes, and many deal specifically with lawyers, courts, judges, and points of law. Daniel Kornstein, a practicing attorney, looks at the legal issues and aspects of Shakespeare?s plays and finds fascinating parallels with many legal and social questions of the present day. The Elizabethan age was as litigious as our own, and Shakespeare was very familiar with the language and procedures of the courts. Kill All the Lawyers? examines the ways in which Shakespeare used the law for dramatic effect and incorporated the passion for justice into his great tragedies and comedies and considers the modern legal relevance of his work. ø This is a ground-breaking study in the field of literature and the law, ambitious and suggestive of the value of both our literary and our legal inheritance.

Author : Franklin Fiske Heard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Law and literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009633561

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Shakespeare as a Lawyer by Franklin Fiske Heard Pdf

Author : Dunbar P. Barton,Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781584770008

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Shakespeare and the Law by Dunbar P. Barton,Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton Pdf

Barton's entertaining and handy study reviews allusions to trials, judges, advocates, courts, procedure, legal concepts and terminology in Shakespeare's plays. Also biographical, Barton considers Shakespeare's personal relation to the Inns of Court and Chancery and the extent of his legal expertise.

Author : Ian Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 040698803X

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Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination by Ian Ward Pdf

This work offers an analysis of constitutional law, examining Shakespeare's plays as legal texts. Professor Ward uses the plays as a starting point to investigate the development of constitutional ideas such as sovereignty, commonwealth, conscience and moral law, and the art of government. In the developing area of law and literature, this book examines how Shakespeare's work offers a rich source of textual material on legal subjects.

Author : Paul Raffield,Gary Watt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847314536

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Shakespeare and the Law by Paul Raffield,Gary Watt Pdf

In July 2007, the School of Law at the University of Warwick hosted an international conference on 'Shakespeare and the Law'. This was a truly interdisciplinary event, which included contributions from eminent speakers in the fields of English, history, theatre and law. The intention was to provide a congenial forum for the exploration, dissemination and discussion of Shakespeare's evident fascination with and knowledge of law, and its manifestation in his works. The papers included in this volume reflect the diverse academic interests of participants at the conference. The eclectic themes of the edited collection range from analyses of the juristic content of specific plays, as in 'Consideration, Contract and the End of The Comedy of Errors', 'Judging Isabella: Justice, Care and Relationships in Measure for Measure', 'Law and its Subversion in Romeo and Juliet', 'Inheritance in the Legal and Ideological Debate of Shakespeare's King Lear' and 'The Law of Dramatic Properties in The Merchant of Venice', to more general explorations of Shakespearean jurisprudence, including 'Shakespeare and Specific Performance', 'Shakespeare and the Marriage Contract', 'The Tragedy of Law in Shakespearean Romance' and 'Punishment Theory in the Renaissance: the Law and the Drama'.

Author : Franklin Fiske Heard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:858438393

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Shakespeare as a Lawyer by Franklin Fiske Heard Pdf

Author : Andrew Zurcher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408143582

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Shakespeare and Law by Andrew Zurcher Pdf

Readers of Shakespeare's language, from the playhouse to the classroom, have long been aware of his peculiar interest in legal words and concepts - Richard II's two bodies, Hamlet's quiddities and quillets, Pandarus' peine forte et dure. In this new study, 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. Following a preface that situates Shakespeare's life within the various legal communities of his Stratford and London periods, Zurcher reconsiders the ways in which Shakespeare adapts legal language and concepts to figure problems about being, knowing, reading, interpretation, and action. In challenging new readings of plays from King John and Henry IV to As You Like It and Hamlet, Shakespeare and Law reveals the importance of early modern common legal thinking to Shakespeare's representations of inheritance, possession, gift-giving, oath-swearing, contract, sovereignty, judgment, and conscience - and, finally, to our own reception and interpretation of his works.