Shakespeare and Law (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	The Arden Shakespeare
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Arden Critical Companions
Release date:	2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Andrew Zurcher
Editors:	Andrew Zurcher
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-1-904271-72-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism Promotions
LSN:	1-904271-72-3
Barcode:	9781904271727

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