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'Shakespeare and the Law' appreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical practices of dramatists and lawyers were informed by the renaissance of classical practice. It argues that Shakespeare was not primarily concerne...

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Main Author:	Watt, Gary (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Series:	Oxford Shakespeare topics.
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Law. Law in literature. Law and literature. Droit dans la littérature. Droit et littérature. Literature: history & criticism. Literature. Electronic books. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.
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