Shakespeare and the Law

by Raffield, Paul; Watt, Gary

• ISBN13: 9781841138251
• ISBN10: 1841138258
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-15
• Publisher: Hart Publishing

Summary

In July 2007, the School of Law at the University of Warwick hosted an international conference on Shakespeare and the Law. This was a truly interdisciplinary event, which included contributions from eminent speakers in the fields of English, history, the

Author Biography

Paul Raffield is Professor of Law at The University of Warwick, where he teaches Shakespeare and the Law, Origins of English Law, and Tort Law. He is the author of Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2010) and Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558-1660 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004). He is co-founder and consultant editor of the journal Law and Humanities.
Gary Watt is a Professor of Law at the University of Warwick, and one of the General Editors of Law and Humanities. He was named UK 'Law Teacher of the Year' 2009.
 

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction	p. 1
Shakespeare, Money and the Law of Contract	p. 5
Shakespeare and Specific Performance	p. 7
Consideration, Contract and the End of the Comedy of Errors	p. 19
Shakespeare, Women and the law	p. 39
The Bawdy Court	p. 41
Shakespeare and the Marriage Contract	p. 51
Judging Isabella: Justice, Care and Relationships in Measure for Measure	p. 65
Shakespeare and the Law of Love	p. 81
Shakespeare Possessed: Legal Affect and the Time of Holding	p. 83
The Tragedy of Law in Shakespearean Romance	p. 101
Law and its Subversion in Romeo and Juliet	p. 119
Justice and the Royal Prerogative	p. 135
'The King is a Thing': the King's Prerogative and the Treasure of the Realm in Plowden's Report of the Case of Mines and Shakespeare's Hamlet	p. 137
Inheritance in the Legal and Ideological Debate of Shakespeare's King Lear	p. 159
Violence, the State and the Citizen	p. 173
Punishment Theory in the Renaissance: the Law and the Drama	p. 175
Terrorists and Equivocators	p. 185
'Terras Astraea reliquit': Titus Andronicus and the Loss of Justice	p. 203
Titus Andronicus vs Le More Cruel and Les Portugais Infortunes: Humiliation, Punishment and Violence in the Shakespearean and French Theatre of the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century	p. 221
The Merchant of Venice and the Infinite Meanings of 'Law'	p. 235
The Law of Dramatic Properties in The Merchant of Venice	p. 237
Shylock in Transylvania: Anti-Semitism and the Law in East Central Europe	p. 253
Shylock as a Politician	p. 271
The Concept and Performance of 'The Code' in The Merchant of Venice	p. 289
Index	p. 299
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