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Shakespeare and the Law

Af: Gary Watt Engelsk Paperback

Shakespeare and the Law

Af: Gary Watt Engelsk Paperback
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Shakespeare and the Law appreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical practices of dramatists and lawyers were informed by the renaissance of classical practice. It argues that Shakespeare was not primarily concerned with the technical accuracy of law, legal ideas, and legal performances, but with their capacity to generate dramatic interest through dispute, trial, the breaking of bonds, and the bending of rules. It follows that all Shakespeare''s plays are in a sense “law plays”. Rhetorical practices can emerge as performances of power, but in Shakespeare''s works they show more as instances of the human instinct to challenge power by playing with rules. Shakespeare employs the special magic of legal language, actions, and materials to conjure playgoers to act as a critical jury to events transacted on stage. This calls for close attention to Shakespeare''s poetic sound effects and the ways they prompt audiences to confer a fair hearing.
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Shakespeare and the Law appreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical practices of dramatists and lawyers were informed by the renaissance of classical practice. It argues that Shakespeare was not primarily concerned with the technical accuracy of law, legal ideas, and legal performances, but with their capacity to generate dramatic interest through dispute, trial, the breaking of bonds, and the bending of rules. It follows that all Shakespeare''s plays are in a sense “law plays”. Rhetorical practices can emerge as performances of power, but in Shakespeare''s works they show more as instances of the human instinct to challenge power by playing with rules. Shakespeare employs the special magic of legal language, actions, and materials to conjure playgoers to act as a critical jury to events transacted on stage. This calls for close attention to Shakespeare''s poetic sound effects and the ways they prompt audiences to confer a fair hearing.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 208
ISBN-13: 9780198877073
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0198877072
Kategori: Engelsk
Udg. Dato: 24 okt 2024
Længde: 17mm
Bredde: 136mm
Højde: 202mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato: 24 okt 2024
Forfatter(e): Gary Watt
Forfatter(e) Gary Watt

Kategori Engelsk

ISBN-13 9780198877073

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 208

Udgave

Længde 17mm

Bredde 136mm

Højde 202mm

Udg. Dato 24 okt 2024

Oplagsdato 24 okt 2024

Forlag Oxford University Press