Shakespeare and the Law: A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions

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Introduction : Shakespeare and the law / Bradin Cormack, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Strier -- Two differences between law and literature / Daniel Brudney -- Decision, possession : the time of law in The winter's tale and the sonnets / Bradin Cormack -- "Lively evidence" : legal inquiry and the evidentia of Shakespearean drama / Lorna Hutson -- Interpreting statute in Measure for measure / Constance Jordan -- Vengeance, complicity, and criminal law in Othello / Richard H. McAdams -- Law and commerce in The merchant of Venice / Richard A. Posner -- Opinion of Fried, J., concurring in the judgment / Charles Fried -- Equity in Measure for measure / David Bevington -- Shakespeare and legal systems : the better the worse (but not vice versa) / Richard Strier -- Liquid fortification and the law in King Lear / Kathy Eden -- Saying in The merchant of Venice / Stanley Cavell -- A British people : Cymbeline and the Anglo-Scottish union issue / Marie Theresa O'Connor -- "Romans, countrymen, and lovers" : political love and the rule of law in Julius Caesar / Martha C. Nussbaum -- A lesson from Shakespeare to the modern judge on law, disobedience, justification, and mercy / Diane P. Wood -- Roundtable : Shakespeare's laws : a justice, a judge, a philosopher, and an English professor.