{"id":3823,"date":"2020-07-30T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2020-07-30T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T19:02:19","slug":"leubsdorf-on-shakespeares-staged-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2020\/07\/30\/leubsdorf-on-shakespeares-staged-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Leubsdorf on Shakespeare&#8217;s Staged Trials @RutgersLaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Leubsdorf, Rutgers, the State University of New York, Rutgers Law School, has published <a href=\"https:\/\/privpapers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3637524&amp;dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_legal:history:ejournal_abstractlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shakespeare&#8217;s Staged Trials<\/a>. Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The trials in Shakespeare\u2019s plays are strange. There are no lawyers or professional judges, there may be no witnesses, and the adjudicator often imposes unusual sanctions such as banishment. Most strikingly, these are almost always fake trials, manipulated by a character toward a predestined result. Two obvious explanations \u2014 that trials in Shakespeare\u2019s day were like that, and that trials in the contemporary drama were like that \u2014 turn out to be largely incorrect. It is more persuasive to trace the strange features of Shakespeare\u2019s trials to the various dramatic functions they fulfill, yet even this approach does not explain everything. There is one more possible explanation, which can be discovered only by reading the article.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download the article from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Leubsdorf, Rutgers, the State University of New York, Rutgers Law School, has published Shakespeare&#8217;s Staged Trials. Here is the abstract. The trials in Shakespeare\u2019s plays are strange. There are no lawyers or professional&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,294],"tags":[132,372,373],"class_list":["post-3823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-literature","category-law-and-theater","tag-news","tag-william-shakespeare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-ZF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3825,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}