The art of law in Shakespeare / Paul Raffield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raffield, Paul, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Law.

Law--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Law and literature--History--16th century.

Law and literature.

Law and literature--History--17th century.

Law in literature.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge--Law.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 275 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; New York : Hart Publishing, 2019.

Contents:

1. 'Fie, painted rhetoric!' Common Law, Satire and the Language of the Beast

I. Oratory, Empire and Common Law

II. Rhetoric, Method and the English Lawyer

III. Our English Martiall: John Davies of the Middle Temple

IV. Love's Labour's Lost, the Inns of Court and the Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric

2. Princes Set Upon Stages: Macbeth, Treason and the Theatre of Law

I. Compassing or Imagining Regicide

II. Of Such Horror, and Monstrous Nature: The Juridical Enactment of Betrayal

III. Royal Succession as Theatre of the Whole World

IV. Treason and the King's Two Bodies

3. The Winter's Tale: An Art Lawful as Eating

I. Law, Literature and Genealogy

II. Horticulture, Transformation and the Artifice of Law

III. The Nature of Law

IV. Inheritance, Gender and the Common Law Tradition

V. The Arts of Portraiture and Politics

4. Cymbeline: Empire, Nationhood and the Jacobean Aeneid

I. Some Footsteps in the Law

II. A Law Inscribed upon the Heart

III. Postnati. Calvin's Case and the Journey of Jacobean Law

IV. The Divine Purpose, Nature and the Equivocal Image

V. The Nationalist Ends of Myth

5. The Tempest: The Island of Law in Jacobean England

I. Cannibals, Colonies and the Brave New World

II. Utopia and the Legal Imagination

III. Enchanted Islands of Common Law.

Notes:

First published 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781509930074

1509930078

OCLC:

1076259847

Publisher Number:

99996798265