Readers of Shakespeare's language, from the playhouse to the
classroom, have long been aware of his peculiar interest in legal
words and concepts - Richard II's two bodies, Hamlet's quiddities
and quillets, Pandarus' "peine forte et dure." In this new
introductory study, 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. Following a preface that situates Shakespeare's life within
the various legal communities of his Stratford and London periods,
Zurcher reconsiders the ways in which Shakespeare adapts legal
language and concepts to figure problems about being, knowing,
reading, interpretation, and action. In challenging new readings of
plays from "King John" and "1 Henry IV" to "As You Like It" and
"Hamlet," "Shakespeare and Law" reveals the importance of early
modern common legal thinking to Shakespeare's representations of
inheritance, possession, gift-giving, oath-swearing, contract,
sovereignty, judgment, and conscience - and, finally, to our own
reception and interpretation of his works.
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