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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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'Jordan and Cunningham's edition...addresses an impressive range of legal connections including slander, equity, inheritance, maritime law, rhetoric, land law, sovereignty, absolutism and the law of nature.' - Literature Compass
'...the collection impressively demonstrates that jurisprudential knowledge of early modern culture enriches and transforms our understanding of Shakespeare's plays' - College Literature
'The contributors of these 14 essays are law professionals and scholars...[who] discuss a variety of legal concepts suggested by Shakespeare's plays...All in all, this is a welcome addition to Shakespeare studies - Choice
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Book Title: The Law in Shakespeare
Editors: Constance Jordan, Karen Cunningham
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230626348
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9214-7Published: 12 December 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-24772-7Published: 12 December 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62634-8Published: 12 December 2006
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 286
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Theatre History, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Poetry and Poetics