Art and Artifice in Shakespeare, Stoll

Автор: Paul Raffield
Название: The Art of Law in Shakespeare
ISBN: 1509905472 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509905478
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Through an examination of five plays by Shakespeare, the author analyzes the contiguous development of common law and poetic drama during the first decade of Jacobean rule. The broad premise of the book is that the 'artificial reason' of law was a complex art form which shared the same rhetorical strategy as the plays of Shakespeare. Common law and Shakespearean drama of this period employed various aesthetic devices to capture the imagination and the emotional attachment of their respective audiences. The common law of the Jacobean era, as spoken in the law courts, learned at the Inns of Court, and recorded in the law reports, used imagery that would have been familiar to audiences at the plays of Shakespeare. In its juridical form, English law was intrinsically dramatic, its adversarial mode of expression being founded on an agonistic model. Conversely, Shakespeare borrowed from the common law some of its most critical themes: justice, legitimacy, sovereignty, community, fairness, and (above all else) humanity. Each chapter investigates a particular aspect of the common law, seen through the lens of a specific play by Shakespeare. Topics include the unprecedented significance of rhetorical skills to the practice and learning of common law (Love's Labour's Lost); the early modern treason trial as exemplar of the theatre of law (Macbeth); the art of law as the legitimate distillation of the law of nature (The Winter's Tale); the efforts of common lawyers to create an image of nationhood from both classical and Judaeo-Christian mythography (Cymbeline); and the theatrical device of the island as microcosm of the Jacobean state and the project of imperial expansion (The Tempest). *** "Raffield's elegant argument is that early modern lawyers learned their tricks and tropes from the theatre, just as much as the thespians came to play the law. Simultaneously erudite and funny, The Art of Law in Shakespeare allows Raffield, himself actor and lawyer, scholar and gentleman, his proper role in both tracking and playing the part of a magistrate of wit." --Professor Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law *** "Paul Raffield's fascinating and illuminating study of the legal issues explored by Shakespeare and his early Jacobean contemporaries is a major contribution to the burgeoning field of law and literature scholarship. Raffield's exploration of cultural history should be of interest to all those interested in early modern English culture." --Professor Barbara Shapiro, UC Berkeley Subject: Legal History, Shakespearean Studies, Literature, Law & Humanities]

Автор: Josie Billington
Название: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare: `This is Living Art`
ISBN: 1472510968 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472510969
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Описание: For most of the twentieth century the exuberantfluency of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's art was not regarded as worthy ofserious attention. Even the evidence for the swiftness of her wit, thought andcomposition remains more impressionistic and anecdotal than firmly proven.Through close attention to original manuscript material, Josie Billingtonargues that Barrett Browning's fast, fine and excitedly vigorous and agileimaginative intelligence is Shakespearean, both in its power, and in thecreative drive and dynamic to which it gives rise. Billington contends that for Barrett Browning, asfor Shakespeare, writing was demonstrably a creative event not a second-orderrecord of experience, and that Barrett Browning's characteristic habits ofcomposition, and her creative procedure, resemble in significant ways those ofthe poet she valued most highly. A fascinating study of both writers' analogouscreative dispositions, minds and modes.