Shakespearean Tragedy and the Common Law: The Art of PunishmentShakespearean Tragedy and the Common Law examines punishment in Shakespeare's tragedies from the perspective of English Renaissance common law cases and theory. William Shakespeare's work is grounded conceptually in the «artificial» reason of common law as embodied by the great jurist of the age, Sir Edward Coke. Coke's legal rationale is sufficiently distinct from our own to suggest that a reasonable spectator in Renaissance England would interpret key elements of Shakespeare's art differently than we do today. Punishment, the sine qua non of these plays, is treated via a spectrum of legal theories: retribution, restitution, deterrence, and reform. Dr. Hawley's close examination of all ten plays and some fifty cases reveals how law, art, and philosophy shape Shakespeare's tragic vision. |
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... claim of human action into an objective presence " ( Fine Art 4 : 144 ) . Hegel rates Shakespeare as unsurpassed in his creation of characters like Hamlet , though he generally points to the structure of Greek tragedy as most representa ...
... claim of human action into an objective presence " ( Fine Art 4 : 144 ) . Hegel rates Shakespeare as unsurpassed in his creation of characters like Hamlet , though he generally points to the structure of Greek tragedy as most representa ...
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... claim expertise on Shakespeare and related theories , I cannot at all say the same of my legal background . I attended Loyola Law School , Los Angeles , very briefly until an illness of some duration forced me to withdraw , much to my ...
... claim expertise on Shakespeare and related theories , I cannot at all say the same of my legal background . I attended Loyola Law School , Los Angeles , very briefly until an illness of some duration forced me to withdraw , much to my ...
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... claim to rights and honors that Regan and Goneril had planned to bestow upon Edmund , about which more must now be said since it follows as a consequence of Lear's madness . IV . THE LAND AND THE CROWN From the most elemental forces of ...
... claim to rights and honors that Regan and Goneril had planned to bestow upon Edmund , about which more must now be said since it follows as a consequence of Lear's madness . IV . THE LAND AND THE CROWN From the most elemental forces of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Complicity and Tragic Retribution | 11 |
Macbeth and the Reasonableness Standard in Law | 23 |
Copyright | |
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