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Shakespeare's Acts of Will - Law, Testament and Properties of Performance (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare's Acts of Will - Law, Testament and Properties of Performance (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare was born into a new age of will, in which individual
intent had the potential to overcome dynastic expectation. The 1540
Statute of Wills had liberated testamentary disposition of land and
thus marked a turning point from hierarchical feudal tradition to
horizontal free trade. Focusing on Shakespeare's late Elizabethan
plays, Gary Watt demonstrates Shakespeare's appreciation of
testamentary tensions and his ability to exploit the inherent drama
of performing will. Drawing on years of experience delivering
rhetoric workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company and as a
prize-winning teacher of law, Gary Watt shows that Shakespeare is
playful with legal technicality rather than obedient to it. The
author demonstrates how Shakespeare transformed lawyers' manual
book rhetoric into powerful drama through a stirring combination of
word, metre, movement and physical stage material, producing a mode
of performance that was truly testamentary in its power to engage
the witnessing public. Published on the 400th anniversary of
Shakespeare's last will and testament, this is a major contribution
to the growing interdisciplinary field of law and humanities.
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