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Shakespeare and Law
Hardback
Main Details
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Shakespeare and Law
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Dr Andrew Zurcher
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Edited by Dr Andrew Zurcher
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| Series | Arden Critical Companions |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:352 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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| Category/Genre | Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800 |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781904271727
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| Classifications | Dewey:822.33 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
12 in-text illustrations
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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| Imprint |
The Arden Shakespeare
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| Publication Date |
3 November 2010 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Readers of Shakespeare's language, from the playhouse to the classroom, have long been aware of his peculiar interest in legal words and concepts - Richard II's two bodies, Hamlet's quiddities and quillets, Pandarus' peine forte et dure. In this new study, Andrew Zurcher takes a fresh, historically sensitive look at Shakespeare's meticulous resort to legal language, texts, concepts, and arguments in a range of plays and poems. Following a preface that situates Shakespeare's life within the various legal communities of his Stratford and London periods, Zurcher reconsiders the ways in which Shakespeare adapts legal language and concepts to figure problems about being, knowing, reading, interpretation, and action. In challenging new readings of plays from King John and Henry IV to As You Like It and Hamlet, Shakespeare and Law reveals the importance of early modern common legal thinking to Shakespeare's representations of inheritance, possession, gift-giving, oath-swearing, contract, sovereignty, judgment, and conscience - and, finally, to our own reception and interpretation of his works.
Author Biography
Andrew Zurcher is Fellow and Newton Trust Lecturer in English at Queens' College, Cambridge University.
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