Frontmatter
Foreword
Table of Contents
Editors' Introduction
Elizabethan Times
Shakespeare, Tragedy, Post-truth: Hamlet, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra / Drakakis, John
Transfixing Shakespearean Worldliness: How Literary Texts Haunt Law and Politics / Costantini, Cristina
Substitution, the Counterfeit Angel and the Imprint of Law / Raffield, Paul
Race, Ethnicity and Alterity in William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus / Antor, Heinz
The Reversal of Modernity: From Justinian in Paradise to Royal Occultism / Giuseppe Monateri, Pier
Do Shylock and Rumpelstiltskin win on appeal? The Justice of Silas Marner / Watt, Gary
I crave the law : De quelques passions juridiques / Ost, François
Shakespeare's "Complex" Dance Imaginary from Text to Stage: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Frederick Ashton's The Dream / Fiorato, Sidia
Shakespeare's As You Like It and The Problems of Relativity / Majeske, Andrew
Hybrid Identities: Joan of Arc Between History, Drama and the Law / Dente, Carla
From the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Johnathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and 'The Cow Trial': Law, Power, Justice and Eristics / Bezrucka, Yvonne
A Painted Ship and a Painted Ocean: Gregson v Gilbert revisited / Ward, Ian
New Provinces of Writing and Legal Education: Law, Language and Society in Blackstone's Commentaries / Logaldo, Mara / Nicolini, Matteo
Law, Clemency and the Politics of Emotion in Heinrich von Kleist's The Prince of Homburg / Howe, Steven
Fairy Tales and the Representation of Female Education in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters / Enrichetta Soccio, Anna
Female Forensics: The Woman Reader in Court in Charles Reade's Griffith Gaunt (1866) / Stierstorfer, Klaus
Revulsion, Paradigmatic Shifts and Legal Philosophy: Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Path of the Law and its Impact on American Legal Thought / Gooch, John Casey
Il mostruoso e divino incanto: le sirene e un caso di ekphrasis / Bertazzoli, Raffaella
From Modernism to Post-postmodernism
Breaking the Silence: Cultural and Legal Encounters / Larsen, Svend Erik
Urban Readings: The City as Text in Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin / Meyer, Anja
Embodied Monstrosity and Identitarian Fluidity in Jeanette Winterson's Novels of the 1980s / Onega, Susana
"In Some Dark Form I'll Continue": James Ellroy's Silent Terror / Amfreville, Marc
Barnes' "The Stowaway" Between Post-Modernism and Post-Anthropocentrism / Battisti, Chiara
Resilience, Narrative Attentiveness and Care( -giving): Martin Amis's Time's Arrow / Ganteau, Jean-Michel
Displaced Memory: The Screened Past of Fugitive Pieces / Bayer, Gerd
Mythic and Fairy-Tale Elements in Doris Lessing's Mara and Dann / Adami, Valentina
"Wrest once the law to your authority. To do a great right, do a little wrong?" / Gaakeer, Jeanne
Posts Manent, Lex Volat: Detective Stories in Electronic Literature / Carbone, Paola
Promethean Longing: Ridley Scott's Speculative Legalism / MacNeil, William P.
Epilogue: Back to Shakespeare and Towards the Contemporary Period
The Rocky Horror Show as Liminal, Gothic, Monstrous, Shakespearean Biolegal Fable / Leiboff, Marett
Contributors
Index of Names and Keywords