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Shakespeare and Law

By Andrew Zurcher

Shakespeare and Law Drama

Shakespeare and Law

By Andrew Zurcher

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Readers of Shakespeare's language, from the playhouse to the classroom, have long been aware of his peculiar interest in legal words and concepts - Richard II's two bodies, Hamlet's quiddities and quillets, Pandarus' peine forte et dure. In this new study, Andrew Zurcher takes a fresh, historically sensitive look at Shakespeare's meticulous resort to legal language, texts, concepts, and arguments in a range of plays and poems. Following a preface that situates Shakespeare's life within the various legal communities of his Stratford and London periods, Zurcher reconsiders the ways in which Shakespeare adapts legal language and concepts to figure problems about being, knowing, reading, interpretation, and action. In challenging new readings of plays from King John and Henry IV to As You Like It and Hamlet, Shakespeare and Law reveals the importance of early modern common legal thinking to Shakespeare's representations of inheritance, possession, gift-giving, oath-swearing, contract, sovereignty, judgment, and conscience - and, finally, to our own reception and interpretation of his works.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2011-01-15
Publication Date:
2010-11-03
Publisher:
Continnuum-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1904271723
ISBN13:
9781904271727
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
470 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
209 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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