The Art of Law in Shakespeare

by Paul Raffield

Book Overview

Through an examination of five plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield analyses the contiguous development of common law and poetic drama during the first decade of Jacobean rule. The broad premise of The Art of Law in Shakespeare is that the 'artificial reason' of law was a complex art form that shared the same rhetorical strategy as the plays of Shakespeare.
Common law and Shakespearean drama of this period employed various aesthetic devices...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509905472
• ISBN13: 9781509905478
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"