Shakespeare and the law
Subtitle: a conversation among disciplines and professions
By: edited by Bradin Cormack, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Strier
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780226924939; 9780226924946
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Congresses; Law; Criticism and interpretation; Knowledge; Law in literature
Notes: "This collection emerges out of a conference on 'Shakespeare and the law' held at the University of Chicago in spring 2009"--introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Shakespeare and the law  -- Bradin Cormack, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Strier; title: Two differences between law and literature  -- Daniel Brudney; title: Decision, possession : the time of law in The winter's tale and the sonnets  -- Bradin Cormack; title: "Lively evidence" : legal inquiry and the evidentia of Shakespearean drama  -- Lorna Hutson; title: Interpreting statute in Measure for measure  -- Constance Jordan; title: Vengeance, complicity, and criminal law in Othello  -- Richard H. McAdams; title: Law and commerce in The merchant of Venice  -- Richard A. Posner; title: Opinion of Fried, J., concurring in the judgment  -- Charles Fried; title: Equity in Measure for measure  -- David Bevington; title: Shakespeare and legal systems : the better the worse (but not vice versa)  -- Richard Strier; title: Liquid fortification and the law in King Lear  -- Kathy Eden; title: Saying in The merchant of Venice  -- Stanley Cavell; title: A British people : Cymbeline and the Anglo-Scottish union issue  -- Marie Theresa O'Connor; title: "Romans, countrymen, and lovers" : political love and the rule of law in Julius Caesar  -- Martha C. Nussbaum; title: A lesson from Shakespeare to the modern judge on law, disobedience, justification, and mercy  -- Diane P. Wood; title: Roundtable : Shakespeare's laws : a justice, a judge, a philosopher, and an English professor.