Shakespeare's Law is a critical overview of law and legal issues
within the life, career, and works of William Shakespeare as well
as those that arise from the endless array of activities that
happen today in the name of Shakespeare. Mark Fortier argues that
Shakespeare's attitudes to law are complex and not always sanguine,
that there exists a deep and perhaps ultimate move beyond law very
different from what a lawyer or legal scholar might recognize.
Fortier looks in detail at the legal issues most prominent across
Shakespeare's work: status, inheritance, fraud, property, contract,
tort (especially slander), evidence, crime, political authority,
trials, and the relative value of law and justice. He also includes
two detailed case studies, of The Merchant of Venice and Measure
for Measure, as well as a chapter looking at law in works by
Shakespeare's contemporaries. The book concludes with a chapter on
the law as it relates to Shakespeare today. The book shows that the
legal issues in Shakespeare are often relevant to issues we face
now, and the exploration of law in Shakespeare is as germane today,
though in sometimes new ways, as in the past.
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