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Creator
Date
2010
Location
London,
England
Great Britain
Great Britain
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xiv, 334 p.
Language
English
Size
21 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 263296
Folger call number: PR3028 .Z87 2010
Folger holdings ID: 348743
Folger call number: PR3028 .Z87 2010
Folger holdings ID: 348743
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
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-325) and index 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
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
Also known as
Extended title: Shakespeare and law / Andrew Zurcher
Related names
author: Zurcher, Andrew
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616