The Art Of Law In Shakespeare - 9781509905478

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 -- "Fie, 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 -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- Bibliography

• | Author: Paul Raffield
• | Publisher: Hart Publishing
• | Publication Date: Feb 09, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Law
• | ISBN-10: 1509905472
• | ISBN-13: 9781509905478