As you law it - negotiating Shakespeare /

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Other Authors: Carpi, Daniela (Editor), Ost, François, 1952- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2018]
Series:Law & literature (De Gruyter) ; v. 15.
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Table of Contents:
  • Shakespeare and the law: state of the art / Daniela Carpi
  • As you law it...: of certain objects and functions of ambiguity in Shakespearean theatre / François Ost
  • King John or the proliferation of the word of authority / Daniela Carpi
  • Richard the freak: the dis-ability to show power / Chiara Battisti
  • Performance, power, politics: the body as stage in Richard III / Sidia Fiorato
  • The subjugation of international law to power politics and mystery of state (Arcana Imperii) in Shakespeare's Henry V / Gilad Ben-Nun
  • Ethnicity, alterity and the law in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice / Heinz Antor
  • Shakespeare's twin brother: foreigners, outlaws, and the comedy of errors / Paul Raffield
  • Fuss about a footnote, or the struggle for (the) law in German legal theory / Jeanne Gaakeer
  • Measure for measure: are criminal laws made to be applied? / François Ost
  • Measure in penal law / Filippo Sgubbi
  • Are the conspirators purgers or murderers? Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Roman Ius Sacrum / Carlo Pelloso
  • Notes on A strange eventful history / Gary Watt
  • Stir up the Australian youth to merriment: A Midsummer Night's Dream, summer 1989 1990 (Sydney, Australia) and the theatrical transmutability of laws texts / Marett Leiboff.