Research Catalog

Title

Shakespeare and judgment / edited by Kevin Curran.

Publication

• Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

Curran, Kevin

Description

ix, 238 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Shakespeare and Judgment" gathers together an international group of scholars to address for the first time the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama. Contributors approach the topic from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives, covering plays from across Shakespeare's career and from each of the genres in which he wrote. Anchoring the volume are two critical contentions: first, that attending to Shakespeare's treatment of judgment leads to fresh insights about the imaginative relationship between law, theater, and aesthetics in early modern England; and second, that it offers new ways of putting the plays' historical and philosophical contexts into conversation. Taken together, the essays offer a genuinely new account of the historical and intellectual coordinates of Shakespeare's plays. Building on current work in legal studies, religious studies, theater history, and critical theory, the volume will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working on Shakespeare and early modern drama."--Page 4 of cover.

Subjects

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Law
• Law in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Judgment in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preventive justice in Measure for measure / Virginia Lee Strain -- Believing in ghosts, in part : judgment and indecision in Hamlet / Vivasvan Soni -- Shakespeare's law and Plowden' authority / Constance Jordan -- "Gently to hear, kindly to judge" : minds at work in Henry V / Katherine B. Attié -- "Practis[ing] judgment with the disposition of natures" : Measure for measure, the "discoursive" common law, and the "open court" of the theater / Carolyn Sale -- The laws of Measure for measure / Paul Yachnin -- Prospero's plea : judgment, invention, and political form in the Tempest / Kevin Curran -- Antinomian Shakespeare : English drama and confession across the Reformation divide / John Parker -- Bracketed judgment, "un-humanizing," and conversion in The merchant of Venice / Sanford Budick -- The judgment of the critics that makes us tremble : "distributing complicities" in recent criticism of King Lear / Richard Strier.

Call Number

JFE 17-371

ISBN

• 1474413153
• 9781474413152

OCLC

950057062

Title

Shakespeare and judgment / edited by Kevin Curran.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Curran, Kevin, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-371