Shakespeare and the Law

Gary Watt (Professor of Law, University of Warwick)

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English

Oxford University Press
22 February 2025

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Legal history

Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics

Shakespeare and the Law appreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical practices of dramatists and lawyers were informed by the renaissance of classical practice. It argues that Shakespeare was not primarily concerned with the technical accuracy of law, legal ideas, and legal performances, but with their capacity to generate dramatic interest through dispute, trial, the breaking of bonds, and the bending of rules. It follows that all Shakespeare's plays are in a sense

By: Gary Watt (Professor of Law University of Warwick)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 246g
ISBN: 9780198877073
ISBN 10: 0198877072
Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 22 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gary Watt is Professor of Law, The University of Warwick. He co-founded the journal Law and Humanities and is general editor of Bloomsbury's Cultural History of Law. He has held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship on rhetorical performance and as a National Teaching Fellow and national 'Law Teacher of the Year' (2009) for many years delivered rhetoric workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His books include Shakespeare's Acts of Will (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare), Dress, Law, and Naked Truth (Bloomsbury), Trusts and Equity (Oxford), The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law (Cambridge) and Equity Stirring (Hart).

Reviews for Shakespeare and the Law

Large sections of the book offer an outstanding introduction to the field. Crisp accounts are provided of topics as diffuse as: John Shakespeare's legal troubles, sumptuary laws, speech acts, the position of Lord Chief Justice, mooting, the Inns of Court and Inns of Chancery, consistory courts, the neck-verse, Shakespeare's will, and much more besides. * Alexander Thom, Taylor & Francis Group * Shakespeare and the Law is...encyclopedic and focused, approachable and erudite, serious and witty. It is precisely the book that many scholars would hope to write and that many students will be relieved to read. * Alexander Thom, Shakespeare *