%0 Book %T art of law in Shakespeare %A Raffield, Paul %S Human Rights Law in Perspective %D 2017 %I Hart Publishing %C Portland, OR %@ 9781509905508 %G English %F 103413986X %O Paul Raffield %O Includes bibliographical references and index %O 2014 |2014|||||||||| %X 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 %L 822.3/3 %K Knowledge %K Law %K Law and literature %K History %K Great Britain %K Law in literature %9 Text %R 10.5040/9781509905508 %R 10.5040/9781509905508?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections %U https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509905508 %U https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509905508?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections