Preamble : 'how shall I understand you?' -- Shakespeare's legal life -- The love of persons : common law and the epistemology of conscience in the Sonnets and A lover's complaint -- Wasting time : conditionality and prosperity in As you like it and the second tetralogy -- Rex v. Lex, or, the proud issue of a king -- The report of the cause of Hamlet -- Codicil : the maxim and the analogy.
Summary
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.
