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Shakespeare's Law
2022
Overview
Shakespeare's Law is a critical overview of law and legal issues within the life, career, and works of William Shakespeare as well as those that arise from the endless array of activities that happen today in the name of Shakespeare. Mark Fortier argues that Shakespeare's attitudes to law are complex and not always sanguine, that there exists a deep and perhaps ultimate move beyond law very different from what a lawyer or legal scholar might recognize.
Fortier looks in detail at the legal issues most prominent across Shakespeare's work: status, inheritance, fraud, property, contract, tort (especially slander), evidence, crime, political authority, trials, and the relative value of law and justice. He also includes two detailed case studies, of The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure, as well as a chapter looking at law in works by Shakespeare's contemporaries. The book concludes with a chapter on the law as it relates to Shakespeare today.
The book shows that the legal issues in Shakespeare are often relevant to issues we face now, and the exploration of law in Shakespeare is as germane today, though in sometimes new ways, as in the past.
Publisher
Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Taylor & Francis Group
Subject
/ English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
/ English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
/ Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
/ Law and literature -- History -- 16th century
/ Law and literature -- History -- 17th century
/ Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation
ISBN
9781032253190, 0367902176, 1032253193, 9780367902179
