Shakespeare and the Law

Paul Raffield is an Associate Professor in Law at Warwick University. Gary Watt is Reader and Associate Professor in Law at Warwick University.

• Foreword (Carol Chillington Rutter) Introduction (Paul Raffield and Gary Watt) I. Shakespeare, Money and the Law of Contract 1. Mark Fortier, 'Shakespeare and Specific Performance' 2. Andrew Zurcher, 'Consideration, Contract and the End of The Comedy of Errors' II. Shakespeare, Women and the Law 3. Jonathan Bate, 'The Bawdy Court' 4. Germaine Greer, 'Shakespeare and the Marriage Contract' 5. Erika Rackley, 'Judging Isabella: Justice, Care and Relationships in Measure for Measure' III. Shakespeare and the Law of Love 6. Bradin Cormack, 'Shakespeare Possessed: Legal Affect and the Time of Holding' 7. Katrin Trustedt, 'The Tragedy of Law in Shakespearean Romance' 8. Daniella Carpi, 'Law and its Subversion in Romeo and Juliet' IV. Justice and the Royal Prerogative 9. Carolyn Sale, 'The King is a Thing': the King's Prerogative and the Treasure of the Realm in Plowden's Report of the Case of Mines and Shakespeare's Hamlet' 10. Giuseppina Restivo, 'Inheritance in the Legal and Ideological Debate of Shakespeare's King Lear' V. Violence, the State and the Citizen 11. Harry Keyishian, 'Punishment Theory in the Renaissance: the Law and the Drama' 12. Ian Ward, 'Terrorists and Equivocators' 13. Paul Raffield, 'Terras Astraea reliquit': Titus Andronicus and the Loss of Justice' 14. Christian Biet, 'Titus Andronicus vs Le More Cruel and Les Portugais Infortunes: Humiliation, Punishment and Violence in the Shakespearean and French Theatre of the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century' VI. The Merchant of Venice and the Infinite Meanings of 'Law' 15. Gary Watt, 'The Law of Dramatic Properties in The Merchant of Venice' 16. Istvan Pogany, 'Shylock in Transylvania: Anti-Semitism and the Law in East Central Europe' 17. Anton Schutz, 'Shylock as a Politician' 18. Richard H. Weisberg, 'The Concept and Performance of 'The Code' in The Merchant of Venice'

Shakespeare and the Law is evidence of the continued vitality of its topic; the range of approaches it offers ensures that those specialising in early modern law and literature will find much of value here, as will scholars of Shakespeare. Luke Wilson Review of English Studies Volume 60, No. 3, April 2010 The law and Shakespeare make uneasy bedfellows as this thought-provoking collection demonstrates time and again. Rene Weis International Journal of Law in Context Volume 5, Number 3