Book Review / Law and History / Legal History / William Shakespeare
by · Published August 16, 2023 · Last modified October 11, 2023
Paul Raffield, Shakespeare’s Strangers and English Law (Hart Pub. 2023) A Review by Andy Lowry The third of Paul Raffield’s[1] monographs on Shakespeare and English law “attempt[s] to provide a wide-ranging examination and analysis...
Alexandra Petri takes on the death of King Duncan and the Macbeths’ rumored involvement in the style of today’s journalism, here, for the Washington Post. She begins: Shortly before the king’s demise, Thane of...
Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, is publishing Escalus’ Dream: Re-Imagining Shakespeare’s States in Law and Poetics (Palgrave, 2020). Here is the abstract. Law and theater, like law and literature, and indeed like...
An article by Vanessa Thorpe in the Guardian examines how repeated outbreaks of the plague might have affected the way William Shakespeare wrote some of his plays, including how he crafted their endings. She...
John Leubsdorf, Rutgers, the State University of New York, Rutgers Law School, has published Shakespeare’s Staged Trials. Here is the abstract. The trials in Shakespeare’s plays are strange. There are no lawyers or professional...
The Shakespeare Theatre Company is presenting a virtual mock trial based on a legal issue arising out of the Bard’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The event takes place July 24th and 25th. The judges...
ICYMI: The Law In Shakespeare (Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, eds., 2005). Here’s a description of the book from the publisher’s website. Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare’s plays to...
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