EAN: 9783110590821

AS YOU LAW IT - NEGOTIATING SHAKESPEARE GEBUNDEN

Shakespeare was fascinated by law  which permeated Elizabethan everyday life. The general
impression one derives from the analysis of many plays by Shakespeare is that of a legal
situation in transformation and of a dynamically changing relation between law and society  law
and the jurisdiction of Renaissance times. Shakespeare provides the kind of literary supplement
that can better illustrate the legal texts of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
There was a strong popular participation in the system of justice  and late sixteenth-century
playwrights often made use of forensic models of narrative. Uncertainty about legal issues
represented a rich potential for causing strong reactions in the public  especially feelings
concerning the resistance to tyranny. The volume aims at highlighting some of the many legal
perspectives and debates emplotted in Shakespearean plays  also taking into consideration the
many texts that have been produced during the latest years on law and literature in the
Renaissance.

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