Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature Book

Preface; Acknowledgements:

1. Natural Law in history and Renaissance literature;
2. The heritage of classical Natural Law;
3. The reception of Natural Law in Renaissance England;
4. Law and literature in sixteenth-century England;
5. More's Utopia;
6. 'Love is the fulfilling of the law': Arcadia and Love's Labour's Lost;
7. 'Hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree': The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure;
8. Shakespeare's The History of King Lear;
9. Milton and Natural Law; Epilogue: Hobbes and the demise of classical Natural Law; Appendix: Aquinas on the right to own private property; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.