Shakespeare and the law : a conversation among disciplines and professions /
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 t...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Shakespeare and the law / Bradin Cormack, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Strier
- Two differences between law and literature / Daniel Brudney
- Decision, possession : the time of law in The winter's tale and the sonnets / Bradin Cormack
- "Lively evidence" : legal inquiry and the evidentia of Shakespearean drama / Lorna Hutson
- Interpreting statute in Measure for measure / Constance Jordan
- Vengeance, complicity, and criminal law in Othello / Richard H. McAdams
- Law and commerce in The merchant of Venice / Richard A. Posner
- Opinion of Fried, J., concurring in the judgment / Charles Fried
- Equity in Measure for measure / David Bevington
- Shakespeare and legal systems : the better the worse (but not vice versa) / Richard Strier
- Liquid fortification and the law in King Lear / Kathy Eden
- Saying in The merchant of Venice / Stanley Cavell
- A British people : Cymbeline and the Anglo-Scottish union issue / Marie Theresa O'Connor
- "Romans, countrymen, and lovers" : political love and the rule of law in Julius Caesar / Martha C. Nussbaum
- A lesson from Shakespeare to the modern judge on law, disobedience, justification, and mercy / Diane P. Wood
- Roundtable : Shakespeare's laws : a justice, a judge, a philosopher, and an English professor.