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Title:

The law in Shakespeare / edited by Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

x, 286 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Law.--Law.
Law--Great Britain--History--16th century.
Law--Great Britain--History--17th century.
Lawyers in literature.
Law in literature.

Other Authors:

Jordan, Constance.
Cunningham, Karen, 1946-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

English law in Shakespeare's plays / Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham -- Drama, law, and rhetoric in the age of Coke and Shakespeare / Allen D. Boyer -- The wilde side of justice in early modern England and Titus Andronicus / Dympna Callaghan and Chris R. Kyle -- "Like to a tenement": landholding, leasing, and inheritance in Richard II / William O. Scott -- Cast out of Eden: property and inheritance in Shakespearean drama / Nancy E. Wright and A. R. Buck -- Avoiding the issue of fraud: 4, 5 Philip & Mary c.8 (the Heiress Protection Statute), Portia and Desdemona / Charles Ross -- Accomplished with what she lacks: law, equity, and Portia's con / Thomas C. Bilello -- Drama and marine insurance in Shakespeare's London / Luke Wilson -- Noises off: participatory justice in 2 Henry VI / Lorna Hutson -- Truth, lies, and the law of slander in Much Ado About Nothing / Cyndia Susan Clegg -- The "amending hand": Hales v. Petit, Eyston V. Studd, and equitable action in Hamlet / Carolyn Sale -- Macbeth: absolutism, the ancient constitution, and the aporia of politics / Peter C. Herman -- Arms and laws in Shakespeare's Coriolanus / Rebecca Lemon -- Measure for Measure and the law of nature / Elizabeth Hanson.

Series:

Early modern literature in history

ISBN:

9781403992147 (cloth)
1403992142 (cloth)

LCCN:

2006049402

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)