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Shakespeare and the Law: A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions

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Description for Shakespeare and the Law: A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions Paperback. Editor(s): Cormack, Bradin; Nussbaum, Martha C.; Strier, Richard. Num Pages: 341 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSGS; LAZ; LNA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 185 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life, and 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. The book's opening essays offer perspectives on law and literature that emphasize both the continuities and contrasts between the two fields. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
496g
Number of Pages
341
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226378565
SKU
V9780226378565
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About Bradin Cormack (Ed.)
Bradin Cormack is professor of English at Princeton University. Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor in the Law School and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Richard Strier is the Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Chicago and editor of the journal Modern ... Read more

Reviews for Shakespeare and the Law: A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions
This splendid collection of essays embraces dramaturgical, legal-historical, legal-philosophical, and formal and linguistic approaches to the question of Shakespeare and the law. Although the Shakespeare we meet here is suspicious of the law's formalisms, a world without law is no utopia in his plays. Instead Shakespeare seeks out and celebrates the forms of equity that might qualify and contextualize the ... Read more

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