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Book Synopsis.- Part I Introduction.- Chapter 1 Subha Mukherji: Introduction.- Part II Legal Imaginaries.- Chapter 2 Julie Stone Peters: Behind Justice's Book and Sword: Knowledge, Emotion, and Judgement in the Scene of Law'.- Chapter 3 Doyeeta Majumdar: Law of Nature in Inns of Court Drama'.- Chapter 4 Richard Sherwin: Escalus' Dream: Reimagining Shakespeare's States'.- Part III Text, Knowledge, Hermeneutics.- Chapter 5 Regina Schwartz: The letter and the Spirit: Portia's Case'.- Chapter 6 Torrance Kirby: Configuring God as Law: Richard Hooker's Poetics of Law'.- Chapter 7 Charles McNamara: The Common Consent of Words: An Aristotelian Element of Hobbesian Legal Rhetoric'.- Part IV Play and Pleasure.- Chapter 8 Peter Goodrich: Doublings: Comedy, Office, Law'.- Chapter 9 Maksymilian Del Mar: Ludic Legal Pedagogy: Mooting in Early Modern England'.- Chapter 10 Gary Watt: A delightful measure: Imagining Barfield's Poetic Jurisdiction'.- Part V Law and Poetics.- Chapter 11 Conrad van Dijk: Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan and the allegory of law'.- Chapter 12 Valérie Hayaert: The versification of legal codes'.- Chapter 13 Jan Melissa-Schramm: Towards a Poetics of Equality in Nineteenth-Century English Literature'.- Chapter 14 Alex Feldman: The Beatitude of the Berrigans: Jurisprudential Drama.- Part VI Afterword.- Chapter 15 Kathy Eden: Afterword.- Index.
