Shakespeare And Law (Arden Critical Companions)
Dr Andrew Zurcher
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Description for Shakespeare And Law (Arden Critical Companions)
Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Zurcher, Andrew. Series: Arden Critical Companions. Num Pages: 296 pages, 12 in-text illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 466.
Readers 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' peine forte et dure. 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 ... Read more
Readers 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' peine forte et dure. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Number of pages
296
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
Arden Critical Companions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904271727
SKU
V9781904271727
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About Dr Andrew Zurcher
Andrew Zurcher is Fellow and Newton Trust Lecturer in English at Queens' College, Cambridge University.
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