The Law in Shakespeare

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors English Law in Shakespeare's Plays; C.Jordan & K.Cunningham Drama, Law and Rhetoric in the Age of Coke and Shakespeare; A.D.Boyer The Wilde Side of Justice in Early Modern England and Titus Andronicus ; D.Callaghan & C.R.Kyle Landholding, Leasing and Inheritance in Richard II; W.O.Scott Cast out of Eden: Property and Inheritance in Shakespearean Drama; N.E.Wright & A.R.Buck Avoiding the Issue of Fraud: 4 and 5 Philip & Mary c. 8 (the heiress protection statute), Portia and Desdemona; C.Ross Accomplished with What She Lacks: Law, Equity and Portia's Con; T.C.Bilello Drama and Marine Insurance in Shakespeare's London; L.Wilson Noises Off: Participatory Justice in 2 Henry VI ; L.Hutson Truth, lies and the law of slander in Much Ado About Nothing ; C.S.Clegg The 'Amending Hand': Hales v. Petit, Eyston v. Studd and Equitable Action in Hamlet ; C.Sale Macbeth : Absolutism, the Ancient Constitution, and the Aporia of Politics; P.C.Herman Arms and Laws in Shakespeare's Coriolanus ; R.Lemon Measure for Measure and the Law of Nature; E.Hanson Index