Shakespeare and the Law - A Conversation Among Disciplines and Professions

Informationen zum Autor Bradin Cormack is professor of English and director of the Nicholson Center for British Studies; Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor in the Law School! the Department of Philosophy! and the Divinity School; and Richard Strier is the Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English and in the College! all at the University of Chicago. Klappentext Demonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts points to a deep engagement with the law's technical workings! its underlying premises! and its social effects. This book considers Shakespeare's awareness of common law thinking and practice through examinations of Measure for Measure and Othella. Zusammenfassung Demonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts points to a deep engagement with the law's technical workings! its underlying premises! and its social effects. This book considers Shakespeare's awareness of common law thinking and practice through examinations of Measure for Measure and Othella.

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• Authors: Bradin Cormack, Bradin Cormack, Bradin Nussbaum Cormack, CORMACK BRADIN EDT NUSSBAUM M, CORMACK BRADIN NUSSBAUM MARTHA C
• Assisted by: Bradin Cormack (Editor), Cormack Bradin (Editor), Martha C. Nussbaum (Editor), Richard Strier (Editor), Strier Richard (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.04.2013
• EAN: 9780226924939
• ISBN: 978-0-226-92493-9
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean