Shakespeares Legal Ecologies

Author : Kevin Curran
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810135183
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies written by Kevin Curran and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies offers the first sustained examination of the relationship between law and selfhood in Shakespeare’s work. Taking five plays and the sonnets as case studies, Kevin Curran argues that law provided Shakespeare with the conceptual resources to imagine selfhood in social and distributed terms, as a product of interpersonal exchange or as a gathering of various material forces. In the course of these discussions, Curran reveals Shakespeare’s distinctly communitarian vision of personal and political experience, the way he regarded living, thinking, and acting in the world as materially and socially embedded practices. At the center of the book is Shakespeare’s fascination with questions that are fundamental to both law and philosophy: What are the sources of agency? What counts as a person? For whom am I responsible, and how far does that responsibility extend? What is truly mine? Curran guides readers through Shakespeare’s responses to these questions, paying careful attention to both historical and intellectual contexts. The result is a book that advances a new theory of Shakespeare’s imaginative relationship to law and an original account of law’s role in the ethical work of his plays and sonnets. Readers interested in Shakespeare, theater and philosophy, law, and the history of ideas will find Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies to be an essential resource.

Author : Kevin Curran
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147441317X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Judgment written by Kevin Curran and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging widely across law, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy, this book offers the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean dramaShakespeare and Judgment gathers together an international group of scholars to address for the first time the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama. Contributors approach the topic from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives, covering plays from across Shakespeare's career and from each of the genres in which he wrote. Anchoring the volume are two critical contentions: first, that attending to Shakespeare's treatment of judgment leads to fresh insights about the imaginative relationship between law, theater, and aesthetics in early modern England; and second, that it offers new ways of putting the plays' historical and philosophical contexts into conversation. Taken together, the essays in Shakespeare and Judgment offer a genuinely new account of the historical and intellectual coordinates of Shakespeare's plays. Building on current work in legal studies, religious studies, theater history, and critical theory, the volume will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working on Shakespeare and early modern drama. Key FeaturesProvides the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean dramaOffers a fresh perspective on the imaginative relationship between law, religion, and aesthetics in Shakespeare's playsModels new ways of putting the plays' historical and philosophical contexts into conversation.

Author : Sir George Greenwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Law written by Sir George Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bradin Cormack
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022637856X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Law written by Bradin Cormack and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life; trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philosophers, and even sitting judges, Shakespeare and the Law demonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts and legal practice points to a deep and sometimes vexed engagement with the law's technical workings, its underlying premises, and its social effects. Shakespeare and the Law opens with three essays that provide useful frameworks for approaching the topic, offering perspectives on law and literature that emphasize both the continuities and the contrasts between the two fields. In its second section, the book considers Shakespeare's awareness of common-law thinking and practice through examinations of Measure for Measure and Othello. Building and expanding on this question, the third part inquires into Shakespeare's general attitudes toward legal systems. A judge and former solicitor general rule on Shylock's demand for enforcement of his odd contract; and two essays by literary scholars take contrasting views on whether Shakespeare could imagine a functioning legal system. The fourth section looks at how law enters into conversation with issues of politics and community, both in the plays and in our own world. The volume concludes with a freewheeling colloquy among Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Richard A. Posner, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Strier that covers everything from the ghost in Hamlet to the nature of judicial discretion"--Jacket.

Author : William Lowes Rushton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Legal Maxims written by William Lowes Rushton and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Randall Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191088099
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Ecology written by Randall Martin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Ecology is the first book to explore the topical contexts that shaped the environmental knowledge and politics of Shakespeare and his audiences. Early modern England experienced unprecedented environmental challenges including climate change, population growth, resource shortfalls, and habitat destruction which anticipate today's globally magnified crises. Shakespeare wove these events into the poetic textures and embodied action of his drama, contributing to the formation of a public ecological consciousness, while opening creative pathways for re-imagining future human relationships with the natural world and non-human life. This book begins with an overview of ecological modernity across Shakespeare's work before focusing on three major environmental controversies in particular plays: deforestation in The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Tempest; profit-driven agriculture in As You Like It; and gunpowder warfare and remedial cultivation in Henry IV Parts One and Two, Henry V, and Macbeth. A fourth chapter examines the interdependency of local and global eco-relations in Cymbeline, and the final chapter explores Darwinian micro-ecologies in Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra. An epilogue suggests that Shakespeare's greatest potential for mobilizing modern ecological ideas and practices lies in contemporary performance. Shakespeare and Ecology illuminates the historical antecedents of modern ecological knowledge and activism, and explores Shakespeare's capacity for generating imaginative and performative responses to today's environmental challenges.

Author : Penelope Geng
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487508042
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England written by Penelope Geng and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a fresh examination of the relationship between literary and legal communities, Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England examines the literature of the communal justice in early modern England.

Author : Cushman Kellogg Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law in Shakespeare ... written by Cushman Kellogg Davis and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : B. J. Sokol
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0826492193
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Legal Language written by B. J. Sokol and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia-style dicitonary explores early modern social life, legal thought, and the interactions within Shakespearean drama.

Author : John Campbell Baron Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Considered written by John Campbell Baron Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: