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Offers the first sustained examination of the relationship between law and selfhood in Shakespeare's work. Taking five plays and the sonnets as case studies, Kevin Curran argues that law provided Shakespeare with the conceptual resources to imagine selfhood in social and distributed terms, as a product of interpersonal exchange or as a gathering of various material forces.

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Curran mobilizes for the study of Shakespeare a deep knowledge of Enlightenment and modern philosophy, and is equally adept at negotiating the complexities of early modern English law and culture."" - Luke Wilson, author of Theaters of Intention: Drama and the Law in Early Modern England

Shakespeares Legal Ecologies

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      Publisher Northwestern University Press
      Published 30 May 2017
      ISBN-13 9780810135178
      978-0810135178
      ISBN-10 0810135175
      Also in:
      Anthologies ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: plays and playwrights

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers the first sustained examination of the relationship between law and selfhood in Shakespeare's work. Taking five plays and the sonnets as case studies, Kevin Curran argues that law provided Shakespeare with the conceptual resources to imagine selfhood in social and distributed terms, as a product of interpersonal exchange or as a gathering of various material forces.

      Trade Review
      Curran mobilizes for the study of Shakespeare a deep knowledge of Enlightenment and modern philosophy, and is equally adept at negotiating the complexities of early modern English law and culture."" - Luke Wilson, author of Theaters of Intention: Drama and the Law in Early Modern England

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