Joyce Rogers sheds new light upon Shakespeare's last public
words through her study of medieval and Renaissance ecclesiastical
and testamentary laws and custom. Professor Rogers provides
extensive background material on English legal history and shows
that the legal documents of the time do give legal answer to the
doubts and speculations that have grown up around Shakespeare's
will. She shows how the will is replete with elements of civil and
common as well as ecclesiastical law and custom, making more
understandable the disputed points of Shakespeare's will, and
establishing that the will was as correct, incontestable, and
conventional as possible.
The main thrust of the book, however, is not on the law as such.
It is on how the law was used by Shakespeare to serve the best
interests and needs of the women and children in his family as well
as the friends named therein. As such, the book will be invaluable
to students and scholars of Elizabethan society and to all
Shakespearean scholars.
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