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The law in Shakespeare / edited by Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR3028 .L39 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early modern literature in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge and learning--Law.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Law--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Law.
- Law--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Lawyers in literature.
- Law in literature.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- x, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Contents:
- English law in Shakespeare's plays / Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham
- Drama, law, and rhetoric in the age of Coke and Shakespeare / Allen D. Boyer
- The wilde side of justice in early modern England and Titus Andronicus / Dympna Callaghan and Chris R. Kyle
- "Like to a tenement": landholding, leasing, and inheritance in Richard II / William O. Scott
- Cast out of Eden: property and inheritance in Shakespearean drama / Nancy E. Wright and A. R. Buck
- Avoiding the issue of fraud: 4, 5 Philip & Mary c.8 (the Heiress Protection Statute), Portia and Desdemona / Charles Ross
- Accomplished with what she lacks: law, equity, and Portia's con / Thomas C. Bilello
- Drama and marine insurance in Shakespeare's London / Luke Wilson
- Noises off: participatory justice in 2 Henry VI / Lorna Hutson
- Truth, lies, and the law of slander in Much Ado About Nothing / Cyndia Susan Clegg
- The "amending hand": Hales v. Petit, Eyston V. Studd, and equitable action in Hamlet / Carolyn Sale
- Macbeth: absolutism, the ancient constitution, and the aporia of politics / Peter C. Herman
- Arms and laws in Shakespeare's Coriolanus / Rebecca Lemon
- Measure for Measure and the law of nature / Elizabeth Hanson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403992142
- 9781403992147
- OCLC:
- 70259089
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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