{"product_id":"9781408143582","title":"Shakespeare and Law","description":"\u003cp\u003eReaders of Shakespeare's language, from the playhouse to the classroom, have long been aware of his peculiar interest in legal words and concepts - Richard II's two bodies, Hamlet's quiddities and quillets, Pandarus' \u003ci\u003epeine forte et dure\u003c\/i\u003e. In this new study, Andrew Zurcher takes a fresh, historically sensitive look at Shakespeare's meticulous resort to legal language, texts, concepts, and arguments in a range of plays and poems. Following a preface that situates Shakespeare's life within the various legal communities of his Stratford and London periods, Zurcher reconsiders the ways in which Shakespeare adapts legal language and concepts to figure problems about being, knowing, reading, interpretation, and action.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn challenging new readings of plays from \u003ci\u003eKing John\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHenry IV\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Law\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the importance of early modern common legal thinking to Shakespeare's representations of inheritance, possession, gift-giving, oath-swearing, contract, sovereignty, judgment, and conscience - and, finally, to our own reception and interpretation of his works. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138073444592,"sku":"9781408143582","price":80.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408143582_p0.jpg?v=1763719429","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408143582","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}