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The Art of Law in Shakespeare (Paperback)
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The Art of Law in Shakespeare (Paperback)
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Through an examination of five plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield
analyses the contiguous development of common law and poetic drama
during the first decade of Jacobean rule. The broad premise of The
Art of Law in Shakespeare is that the 'artificial reason' of law
was a complex art form that shared the same rhetorical strategy as
the plays of Shakespeare. Common law and Shakespearean drama of
this period employed various aesthetic devices to capture the
imagination and the emotional attachment of their respective
audiences. Common law of the Jacobean era, as spoken in the law
courts, learnt at the Inns of Court and recorded in the law
reports, used imagery that would have been familiar to audiences of
Shakespeare's plays. In its juridical form, English law was
intrinsically dramatic, its adversarial mode of expression being
founded on an agonistic model. Conversely, Shakespeare borrowed
from the common law some of its most critical themes: justice,
legitimacy, sovereignty, community, fairness, and (above all else)
humanity. Each chapter investigates a particular aspect of the
common law, seen through the lens of a specific play by
Shakespeare. Topics include the unprecedented significance of
rhetorical skills to the practice and learning of common law
(Love's Labour's Lost); the early modern treason trial as exemplar
of the theatre of law (Macbeth); the art of law as the legitimate
distillation of the law of nature (The Winter's Tale); the efforts
of common lawyers to create an image of nationhood from both
classical and Judeo-Christian mythography (Cymbeline); and the
theatrical device of the island as microcosm of the Jacobean state
and the project of imperial expansion (The Tempest).
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