Shakespeare and the Law: A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions Book

Introduction: Shakespeare and the Law
 BRADIN CORMACK, MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM, and RICHARD STRIER

I. HOW TO THINK “LAW AND LITERATURE” IN SHAKESPEARE

DANIEL BRUDNEY
 Two Differences between Law and Literature

BRADIN CORMACK
 Decision, Possession: The Time of Law in The Winter’s Tale and the Sonnets

LORNA HUTSON
 “Lively Evidence”: Legal Inquiry and the Evidentia of Shakespearean Drama

II. SHAKESPEARE’S KNOWLEDGE OF LAW: STATUTE LAW, CASE LAW

CONSTANCE JORDAN
 Interpreting Statute in Measure for Measure

RICHARD H. MCADAMS
 Vengeance, Complicity, and Criminal Law in Othello

III. SHAKESPEARE’S ATTITUDES TOWARD LAW: IDEAS OF JUSTICE

RICHARD A. POSNER
 Law and Commerce in The Merchant of Venice

CHARLES FRIED
 Opinion of Fried, J., Concurring in the Judgment

DAVID BEVINGTON
 Equity in Measure for Measure

RICHARD STRIER
 Shakespeare and Legal Systems: The Better the Worse (but Not Vice Versa)

IV. LAW, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITY IN SHAKESPEARE

KATHY EDEN
 Liquid Fortification and the Law in King Lear

STANLEY CAVELL
 Saying in The Merchant of Venice

MARIE THERESA O’CONNOR A British People: Cymbeline and the Anglo-Scottish Union Issue

MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM
 “Romans, Countrymen, and Lovers”: Political Love and the Rule of Law in Julius Caesar

DIANE P. WOOD
 A Lesson from Shakespeare to the Modern Judge on Law, Disobedience, Justification, and Mercy

V. ROUNDTABLE

 Shakespeare’s Laws: A Justice, a Judge, a Philosopher, and an English Professor

Contributors

Index