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Shakespearean Tragedy and the Common Law
William M. Hawley
其他書名
The Art of Punishment
出版
P. Lang
, 1998
主題
Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Drama / Shakespeare
Law / Jurisprudence
Law / Legal History
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
ISBN
082043857X
9780820438573
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xUFlAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Shakespearean 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.