Contents
Foreword
CAROL CHILLINGTON RUTTER;
List of Contributors;
Introduction;
PAUL RAFFIELD AND GARY WAIT;
SHAKESPEARE ,MONEY AND THE LAW OF CONTRAC;
I Shakespeare and Specific Performance- MARK FORTIER;
2 Consideration, Contract and the End of The Comedy of Errors- ANDREW ZURCHER;
II. SHAKESPEARE, WOMEN AND THE LAW
3 The Bawdy Court- JONATHAN BATE;
4 Shakespeare and the Marriage Contract- GERMAINE GREER;
5 Judging Isabella: Justice, Care and Relationships in Measure for Measure - ERIKA RACKLEY;
III. SHAKESPEARE AND THE LAW OF LOVE
6 Shakespeare Possessed; legal Affect and the Time of Holding - BRADIN CORMACK;
7 The Tragedy of Law in Shakespearean Romance- KATRIN TRUSTEDT;
8 Law and its Subversion in Romeo and Juliet- DANIEIA CARPI;
IV. JUSTICE AND THE ROYAL PREROGATTVE
9 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 - CAROLYN SAIE;
l0 Inheritance in the legal and Ideological Debate of Shakespeare's-King Lear,GIUSEPPINA RESTIVO;
V. VOILENCE, THE STATE AND THE CITIZEN
11 Punishment Theory in the Renaissance the Law and the Drama- HARRY KEYISHIAN;
12 Terrorists and Equivocators - IAN WARD;
l3'Terras ,Astraea reliquit Titus Andronicus and the Loss of Justice - AUL RAFFIELD;
14 Titus Andronicus vs le More Cruel and Les Portugais lnfortunes Humiliation, Punishment and Violence in the Shakespeareon and French Theatre of the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century- CHRISTIAN BIET;
Vl. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE AND THE INFINITE MEANINGS Of 'LAw'
15 The Law of Dramatic Properties in The Merchant of Venice- GARY WATT;
16 Shylock in Transylvania: Anti-semitism and the Law in East Central Europe ISTVAN POGANY;
17 Shylock as a Politician- ANTON SCHUTZ;
18 The Concept and Performance of 'The Code' in The Merchant of Venice RICHARD H WEISBERG;
Inde