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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
'Jordan and Cunningham's edition...addresses an impressive range of legal connections including slander, equity, inheritance, maritime law, rhetoric, land law, sovereignty, absolutism and the law of nature.' - Literature Compass
'...the collection impressively demonstrates that jurisprudential knowledge of early modern culture enriches and transforms our understanding of Shakespeare's plays' - College Literature
'The contributors of these 14 essays are law professionals and scholars...[who] discuss a variety of legal concepts suggested by Shakespeare's plays...All in all, this is a welcome addition to Shakespeare studies - Choice
Editors and Affiliations
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Claremont Graduate University, USA
Constance Jordan
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Los Angeles, USA
Karen Cunningham
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Law in Shakespeare
Editors: Constance Jordan, Karen Cunningham
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230626348
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9214-7Published: 12 December 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-24772-7Published: 12 December 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62634-8Published: 12 December 2006
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 286
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Theatre History, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Poetry and Poetics