The law in Shakespeare / edited by Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham.

Incluye bibliografía.

English law in Shakespeare´s plays / Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham -- Drama, law, and rhetoric in the age of Coke and Shakespeare / Allen D. Boyer -- The wilde side of justice in early modern England and Titus Andronicus / Dympna Callaghan and Chris R. Kyle -- ´Like to a tenement´: landholding, leasing, and inheritance in Richard II / William O. Scott -- Cast out of Eden: property and inheritance in Shakespearean drama / Nancy E. Wright and A. R. Buck -- Avoiding the issue of fraud: 4, 5 Philip & Mary c.8 (the Heiress Protection Statute), Portia and Desdemona / Charles Ross -- Accomplished with what she lacks: law, equity, and Portia´s con / Thomas C. Bilello -- Drama and marine insurance in Shakespeare´s London / Luke Wilson -- Noises off: participatory justice in 2 Henry VI / Lorna Hutson -- Truth, lies, and the law of slander in Much Ado About Nothing / Cyndia Susan Clegg -- The ´amending hand´: Hales v. Petit, Eyston V. Studd, and equitable action in Hamlet / Carolyn Sale -- Macbeth: absolutism, the ancient constitution, and the aporia of politics / Peter C. Herman -- Arms and laws in Shakespeare´s Coriolanus / Rebecca Lemon -- Measure for Measure and the law of nature / Elizabeth Hanson.