The Law in Shakespeare

Now available in paperback for the first time, this book brings together leading scholars in the field to analyze Shakespeare's plays, showing how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creation and application of law. Individual essays focus on such topics such as slander, revenge and royal prerogative.

CONSTANCE JORDAN has published widely on topics in Renaissance literature and culture. She is the author of Renaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and Political Models (1990) and Shakespeare's Monarchies: Ruler and Subject in the Romances (1997). She is co-editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature (1999, 2003, 2006).

KAREN CUNNINGHAM is a lecturer in English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her articles on Marlowe, Shakespeare, Raleigh and early modern women, have appeared in Publications of the Modern Language Association, Exemplaria, Shakespeare Quarterly, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Drama, and the Blackwell Shakespeare companion volumes. She is the author of Imaginary Betrayals: Subjectivity and the Discourses of Treason in Early Modern England (2002).

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
English Law in Shakespeare's Plays	p. 1
Drama, Law, and Rhetoric in the Age of Coke and Shakespeare	p. 20
The Wilde Side of Justice in Early Modern England and Titus Andronicus	p. 38
"Like to a Tenement": Landholding, Leasing, and Inheritance in Richard II	p. 58
Cast out of Eden: Property and Inheritance in Shakespearean Drama	p. 73
Avoiding the Issue of Fraud: 4, 5 Philip & Mary c.8 (the Heiress Protection Statute), Portia, and Desdemona	p. 91
Accomplished with What She Lacks: Law, Equity, and Portia's Con	p. 109
Drama and Marine Insurance in Shakespeare's London	p. 127
Noises Off: Participatory Justice in 2 Henry VI	p. 143
Truth, Lies, and the Law of Slander in Much Ado About Nothing	p. 167
The "Amending Hand": Hales v. Petit, Eyston v. Studd, and Equitable Action in Hamlet	p. 189
Macbeth: Absolutism, the Ancient Constitution, and the Aporia of Politics	p. 208
Arms and Laws in Shakespeare's Coriolanus	p. 233
Measure for Measure and the Law of Nature	p. 249
Index	p. 266
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