Shakespeare's Legal Ecologies: Law and Distributed Selfhood

by Kevin Curran

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810135167
• ISBN13: 9780810135161
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"