Shakespeare and the Law

Large sections of the book offer an outstanding introduction to the field. Crisp accounts are provided of topics as diffuse as: John Shakespeare’s legal troubles, sumptuary laws, speech acts, the position of Lord Chief Justice, mooting, the Inns of Court and Inns of Chancery, consistory courts, the neck-verse, Shakespeare’s will, and much more besides. * Alexander Thom, Taylor & Francis Group *Shakespeare and the Law is…encyclopedic and focused, approachable and erudite, serious and witty. It is precisely the book that many scholars would hope to write and that many students will be relieved to read. * Alexander Thom, Shakespeare *

Gary Watt is Professor of Law at The University of Warwick. He co-founded the journal Law and Humanities and is general editor of Bloomsbury’s Cultural History of Law. He has held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship on rhetorical performance and as a National Teaching Fellow and national ‘Law Teacher of the Year’ (2009) for many years delivered rhetoric workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His books include Shakespeare’s Acts of Will, Dress, Law, and Naked Truth, Trusts and Equity, The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law and Equity Stirring.