Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-325) and index.
Contents:
Preamble : 'how shall I understand you?' -- Shakespeare's legal life -- The love of persons : common law and the epistemology of conscience in the Sonnets and A lover's complaint -- Wasting time : conditionality and prosperity in As you like it and the second tetralogy -- Rex v. Lex, or, the proud issue of a king -- The report of the cause of Hamlet -- Codicil : the maxim and the analogy.
Summary:
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.
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