Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810135183
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies by : Kevin Curran

Download or read book Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies written by Kevin Curran and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies offers the first sustained examination of the relationship between law and selfhood in Shakespeare’s work. Taking five plays and the sonnets as case studies, Kevin Curran argues that law provided Shakespeare with the conceptual resources to imagine selfhood in social and distributed terms, as a product of interpersonal exchange or as a gathering of various material forces. In the course of these discussions, Curran reveals Shakespeare’s distinctly communitarian vision of personal and political experience, the way he regarded living, thinking, and acting in the world as materially and socially embedded practices. At the center of the book is Shakespeare’s fascination with questions that are fundamental to both law and philosophy: What are the sources of agency? What counts as a person? For whom am I responsible, and how far does that responsibility extend? What is truly mine? Curran guides readers through Shakespeare’s responses to these questions, paying careful attention to both historical and intellectual contexts. The result is a book that advances a new theory of Shakespeare’s imaginative relationship to law and an original account of law’s role in the ethical work of his plays and sonnets. Readers interested in Shakespeare, theater and philosophy, law, and the history of ideas will find Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies to be an essential resource.

Shakespeare and Judgment

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147441317X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Judgment by : Kevin Curran

Download or read book Shakespeare and Judgment written by Kevin Curran and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging widely across law, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy, this book offers the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean dramaShakespeare and Judgment gathers together an international group of scholars to address for the first time the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama. Contributors approach the topic from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives, covering plays from across Shakespeare's career and from each of the genres in which he wrote. Anchoring the volume are two critical contentions: first, that attending to Shakespeare's treatment of judgment leads to fresh insights about the imaginative relationship between law, theater, and aesthetics in early modern England; and second, that it offers new ways of putting the plays' historical and philosophical contexts into conversation. Taken together, the essays in Shakespeare and Judgment offer a genuinely new account of the historical and intellectual coordinates of Shakespeare's plays. Building on current work in legal studies, religious studies, theater history, and critical theory, the volume will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working on Shakespeare and early modern drama. Key FeaturesProvides the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean dramaOffers a fresh perspective on the imaginative relationship between law, religion, and aesthetics in Shakespeare's playsModels new ways of putting the plays' historical and philosophical contexts into conversation.

Shakespeare and the Law

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022637856X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Law by : Bradin Cormack

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Law written by Bradin Cormack and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life; trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philosophers, and even sitting judges, Shakespeare and the Law demonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts and legal practice points to a deep and sometimes vexed engagement with the law's technical workings, its underlying premises, and its social effects. Shakespeare and the Law opens with three essays that provide useful frameworks for approaching the topic, offering perspectives on law and literature that emphasize both the continuities and the contrasts between the two fields. In its second section, the book considers Shakespeare's awareness of common-law thinking and practice through examinations of Measure for Measure and Othello. Building and expanding on this question, the third part inquires into Shakespeare's general attitudes toward legal systems. A judge and former solicitor general rule on Shylock's demand for enforcement of his odd contract; and two essays by literary scholars take contrasting views on whether Shakespeare could imagine a functioning legal system. The fourth section looks at how law enters into conversation with issues of politics and community, both in the plays and in our own world. The volume concludes with a freewheeling colloquy among Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Richard A. Posner, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Strier that covers everything from the ghost in Hamlet to the nature of judicial discretion"--Jacket.

Shakespeare's Law

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Law by : Sir George Greenwood

Download or read book Shakespeare's Law written by Sir George Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare's Legal Maxims

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Legal Maxims by : William Lowes Rushton

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Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487508042
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England by : Penelope Geng

Download or read book Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England written by Penelope Geng and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a fresh examination of the relationship between literary and legal communities, Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England examines the literature of the communal justice in early modern England.

The Law in Shakespeare ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (227 download)

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Book Synopsis The Law in Shakespeare ... by : Cushman Kellogg Davis

Download or read book The Law in Shakespeare ... written by Cushman Kellogg Davis and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare and Ecology

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191088099
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Ecology by : Randall Martin

Download or read book Shakespeare and Ecology written by Randall Martin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Ecology is the first book to explore the topical contexts that shaped the environmental knowledge and politics of Shakespeare and his audiences. Early modern England experienced unprecedented environmental challenges including climate change, population growth, resource shortfalls, and habitat destruction which anticipate today's globally magnified crises. Shakespeare wove these events into the poetic textures and embodied action of his drama, contributing to the formation of a public ecological consciousness, while opening creative pathways for re-imagining future human relationships with the natural world and non-human life. This book begins with an overview of ecological modernity across Shakespeare's work before focusing on three major environmental controversies in particular plays: deforestation in The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Tempest; profit-driven agriculture in As You Like It; and gunpowder warfare and remedial cultivation in Henry IV Parts One and Two, Henry V, and Macbeth. A fourth chapter examines the interdependency of local and global eco-relations in Cymbeline, and the final chapter explores Darwinian micro-ecologies in Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra. An epilogue suggests that Shakespeare's greatest potential for mobilizing modern ecological ideas and practices lies in contemporary performance. Shakespeare and Ecology illuminates the historical antecedents of modern ecological knowledge and activism, and explores Shakespeare's capacity for generating imaginative and performative responses to today's environmental challenges.

Shakespeare's Law

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000577384
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Law by : Mark Fortier

Download or read book Shakespeare's Law written by Mark Fortier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Shakespeare and the Lawyers

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135032734
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Lawyers by : O Hood Phillips

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Lawyers written by O Hood Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1972. Shakespeare's writing abounds with legal terms and allusions and in many of the plays the concept and working of the law is a significant theme. Shakespeare and the Lawyers gives a comprehensive survey of what Shakespeare wrote about the law and lawyers, and what has been written, particularly by lawyers, about Shakespeare's life and works in relation to the law. The book first reviews the recorded facts about Shakespeare's life and works, and his connection with the Inns of Court. It then discusses legal terms, allusions and plots in the plays; Shakespeare's treatment of the problems of law, justice and government; his description of lawyers and officers of the law; his references to actual legal personalities; and his trial scenes. Two further chapters consider the criticisms that have been made of Shakespeare's law, and the contribution to Shakespeare studies by lawyers.

The Drama of Complaint

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192694774
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Book Synopsis The Drama of Complaint by : Emily Shortslef

Download or read book The Drama of Complaint written by Emily Shortslef and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy is the first book-length study of complaint in Shakespearean drama. Emily Shortslef makes two main arguments. One is that poetic forms of complaint—expressions of discontent and unhappiness—operate in and across the period's literary and nonliterary discourses as sites of thought about human flourishing, the subject of ethical inquiry. The other is that Shakespearean configurations of these ubiquitous forms in theatrical scenes of complaint model new ways of thinking about ethical subjectivity, or ways of desiring, acting, and living consonant with notions of the good life. The Drama of Complaint develops these interlocking arguments through five chapters that demonstrate the thinking materialized in and through five prolific forms of complaint (existential, judicial, spectral, female, and deathbed). Built around some of the most electrifying scenes in Shakespearean tragedy, each chapter is a case study that identifies and theorizes one of these forms of complaint; delineates a matrix of ethical thought that structures that form; and develops a new reading of a Shakespearean tragedy to which that form of complaint and those ethical questions are integral.

Unphenomenal Shakespeare

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004526633
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Unphenomenal Shakespeare by : Julián Jiménez Heffernan

Download or read book Unphenomenal Shakespeare written by Julián Jiménez Heffernan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The times when abstaining from cakes and ale was seen as a sign of critical virtue are over. Phenomenal Shakespeare is at your back lawn with a picnic-basket jammed with intersubjectivity, embodiment, immediacy, representation. If you feel like passing, read this book.

Law as Performance

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192653598
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Book Synopsis Law as Performance by : Julie Stone Peters

Download or read book Law as Performance written by Julie Stone Peters and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be "seen to be done." Law as Performance traces the history of legal performance and spectatorship through the early modern period. Viewing law as the product not merely of edicts or doctrines but of expressive action, it investigates the performances that literally created law: in civic arenas, courtrooms, judges' chambers, marketplaces, scaffolds, and streets. It examines the legal codes, learned treatises, trial reports, lawyers' manuals, execution narratives, rhetoric books, images (and more) that confronted these performances, praising their virtues or denouncing their evils. In so doing, it recovers a long, rich, and largely overlooked tradition of jurisprudential thought about law as a performance practice. This tradition not only generated an elaborate poetics and politics of legal performance. It provided western jurisprudence with a set of constitutive norms that, in working to distinguish law from theatrics, defined the very nature of law. In the crucial opposition between law and theatre, law stood for cool deliberation, by-the-book rules, and sovereign discipline. Theatre stood for deceptive artifice, entertainment, histrionics, melodrama. And yet legal performance, even at its most theatrical, also appeared fundamental to law's realization: a central mechanism for shaping legal subjects, key to persuasion, essential to deterrence, indispensable to law's power, —as it still does today.

Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 150151315X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser by : Jennifer C. Vaught

Download or read book Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser written by Jennifer C. Vaught and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer C. Vaught illustrates how architectural rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser provides a bridge between the human body and mind and the nonhuman world of stone and timber. The recurring figure of the body as a besieged castle in Shakespeare’s drama and Spenser’s allegory reveals that their works are mutually based on medieval architectural allegories exemplified by the morality play The Castle of Perseverance. Intertextual and analogous connections between the generically hybrid works of Shakespeare and Spenser demonstrate how they conceived of individuals not in isolation from the physical environment but in profound relation to it. This book approaches the interlacing of identity and place in terms of ecocriticism, posthumanism, cognitive theory, and Cicero’s art of memory. Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser examines figures of the permeable body as a fortified, yet vulnerable structure in Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, tragedies, romances, and Sonnets and in Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Complaints.

Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780406988034
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination by : Ian Ward

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination written by Ian Ward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers an analysis of constitutional law, examining Shakespeare's plays as legal texts. Professor Ward uses the plays as a starting point to investigate the development of constitutional ideas such as sovereignty, commonwealth, conscience and moral law, and the art of government. In the developing area of law and literature, this book examines how Shakespeare's work offers a rich source of textual material on legal subjects.

Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Considered

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Considered by : John Campbell Baron Campbell

Download or read book Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Considered written by John Campbell Baron Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare's Sceptered Isle

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476685827
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Sceptered Isle by : Brian Carroll

Download or read book Shakespeare's Sceptered Isle written by Brian Carroll and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work searches Shakespeare's history and Roman plays to find the raw materials of English national consciousness and identity. The messages of Shakespeare's history plays are not principally the plots or "facts" of the dramas but the attitudes and imaginings they elicited in audiences. Reading Shakespeare through the lens of national identity is a study almost as old as the plays themselves, and many scholars have found various articulations of nationhood in Shakespeare's plays. This book argues that Shakespeare's histories furnished modern England with a curriculum for constructing a national identity, a confidence of language and culture, and a powerful new medium through which to communicate and express this negotiated identity. Highlighting the application of semiotics, it studies the playwright's use of symbols, metonymy, symbolic codes, and metaphor. By examining what Shakespeare and playgoers remembered and forgot, as well as the ways ideas were framed, this book explores how a national identity was crafted, contested, and circulated.