Shakespeare S Law

Author : Bradin Cormack,Martha C. Nussbaum,Richard Strier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Mark Fortier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : C. Jordan,K. Cunningham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Paul Raffield,Gary Watt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Dunbar P. Barton,Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : 52,7 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 : O Hood Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135032746

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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 : Cushman Kellogg Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Law in literature
ISBN : UVA:X001639990

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The Law in Shakespeare by Cushman Kellogg Davis Pdf

Author : Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00120396

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The Law in Shakespeare by Davis Pdf

Author : CUSHMAN KELLOGG. DAVIS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103372663X

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LAW IN SHAKESPEARE by CUSHMAN KELLOGG. DAVIS Pdf

Author : Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B3293657

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Links Between Shakespeare and the Law by Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton Pdf

Author : Paul Raffield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847316066

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Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution by Paul Raffield Pdf

Through an examination of six plays by Shakespeare, the author presents an innovative analysis of political developments in the last decade of Elizabethan rule and their representation in poetic drama of the period. The playhouses of London in the 1590s provided a distinctive forum for discourse and dissemination of nascent political ideas. Shakespeare exploited the unique capacity of theatre to humanise contemporary debate concerning the powers of the crown and the extent to which these were limited by law. The autonomous subject of law is represented in the plays considered here as a sentient political being whose natural rights and liberties found an analogue in the narratives of common law, as recorded in juristic texts and law reports of the early modern era. Each chapter reflects a particular aspect of constitutional development in the late-Elizabethan state. These include abuse of the royal prerogative by the crown and its agents; the emergence of a politicised middle class citizenry, empowered by the ascendancy of contract law; the limitations imposed by the courts on the lawful extent of divinely ordained kingship; the natural and rational authority of unwritten lex terrae; the poetic imagination of the judiciary and its role in shaping the constitution; and the fusion of temporal and spiritual jurisdiction in the person of the monarch. The book advances original insights into the complex and agonistic relationship between theatre, politics, and law. The plays discussed offer persuasive images both of the crown's absolutist tendencies and of alternative polities predicated upon classical and humanist principles of justice, equity, and community. 'It is now canon in progressive U.S. legal scholarship that to focus solely on the text of our Constitution is myopic. We look as well for "constitutional moments", moments when the zeitgeist is so transformed that our fundamental legal charter changes with it. In this breathtakingly erudite book, Paul Raffield argues that the late-Elizabethan period was such a "constitutional moment" in England, a moment literally "played out" for the polity by the greatest dramatist of all time. A lawyer and a thespian, Raffield handles both legal and literary sources with exquisite care. As with the works of the Old Masters, one dwells pleasurably on each detail until their cumulative force presses one backward to see the canvas in its sudden, glorious entirety. A major achievement.' Kenji Yoshino Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law

Author : Daniel Kornstein
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Kevin Curran
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810135185

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Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies by Kevin Curran Pdf

Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies offers the first sustained examination of the relationship between law and selfhood in Shakespeare’s work. Taking five plays and the sonnets as case studies, Kevin Curran argues that law provided Shakespeare with the conceptual resources to imagine selfhood in social and distributed terms, as a product of interpersonal exchange or as a gathering of various material forces. In the course of these discussions, Curran reveals Shakespeare’s distinctly communitarian vision of personal and political experience, the way he regarded living, thinking, and acting in the world as materially and socially embedded practices. At the center of the book is Shakespeare’s fascination with questions that are fundamental to both law and philosophy: What are the sources of agency? What counts as a person? For whom am I responsible, and how far does that responsibility extend? What is truly mine? Curran guides readers through Shakespeare’s responses to these questions, paying careful attention to both historical and intellectual contexts. The result is a book that advances a new theory of Shakespeare’s imaginative relationship to law and an original account of law’s role in the ethical work of his plays and sonnets. Readers interested in Shakespeare, theater and philosophy, law, and the history of ideas will find Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies to be an essential resource.

Author : Cushman K. Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632608626

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The law in Shakespeare by Cushman K. Davis Pdf