The art of law in Shakespeare
"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 [this book] is that the 'artificial reason' of law was a complex art form that shared t...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Portland, OR :
Hart Publishing
2017.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Human Rights Law in Perspective. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44352177*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. F̀ie, painted rhetoric!' Common Law, Satire and the Language of the Beast
- I. Oratory, Empire and Common Law
- II. Rhetoric, Method and the English Lawyer
- III. Our English Martiall: John Davies of the Middle Temple
- IV. Love's Labour's Lost, the Inns of Court and the Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
- 2. Princes Set Upon Stages: Macbeth, Treason and the Theatre of Law
- I. Compassing or Imagining Regicide
- II. Of Such Horror, and Monstrous Nature: The Juridical Enactment of Betrayal
- III. Royal Succession as Theatre of the Whole World
- IV. Treason and the King's Two Bodies
- 3. The Winter's Tale: An Art Lawful as Eating
- I. Law, Literature and Genealogy
- II. Horticulture, Transformation and the Artifice of Law
- III. The Nature of Law
- IV. Inheritance, Gender and the Common Law Tradition
- V. The Arts of Portraiture and Politics
- 4. Cymbeline: Empire, Nationhood and the Jacobean Aeneid
- I. Some Footsteps in the Law
- II. A Law Inscribed upon the Heart
- III. Postnati. Calvin's Case and the Journey of Jacobean Law
- IV. The Divine Purpose, Nature and the Equivocal Image
- V. The Nationalist Ends of Myth
- 5. The Tempest: The Island of Law in Jacobean England
- I. Cannibals, Colonies and the Brave New World
- II. Utopia and the Legal Imagination
- III. Enchanted Islands of Common Law.
