PrologueCh. 1Shakespeare and the Law3Ch. 2The First Thing We Do - Henry VI, Part 222Ch. 3A Scarecrow of the Law - Measure for Measure35Ch. 4Fie upon Your Law! - The Merchant of Venice65Ch. 5Skull of a Lawyer - Hamlet90Ch. 6Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is Dead! - Julius Caesar107Ch. 7The Lunatic, the Lover, the Poet - and the Lawyer? - A Midsummer Night's Dream125Ch. 8Old Father Antic the Law - Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2135Ch. 9Final Verdict on Richard III143Ch. 10Much Ado about Slander - Othello and Much Ado about Nothing156Ch. 11A Just and Open Trial? - The Winter's Tale176Ch. 12To Break Our Country's Laws - Richard II193Ch. 13Breath of an Unfee'd Lawyer - King Lear210Ch. 14Shakespeare the Scrivener?227Epilogue: Unacknowledged Lawgiver239Notes247Works Cited259Index265
Daniel J. Kornstein, President of the Law and Humanities Institute, is a founding partner of Kornstein Veisz & Wexler in New York City. He is the author of Thinking under Fire: Courtroom Lawyers and Their Impact on American History (Dodd Mead) and The Music of the Laws (Everest House).
"Kornstein's passionate love of Shakespeare and of law comes
through on every page as he combines fascinating bits of legal
history and ruminations of the role of law in society with
perceptive exegeses of Shakespearean themes that still have great
relevance today . . . . "—Marjorie Heins, Director and Staff
Counsel, ACLU Arts Censorship Project
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Daniel Kornstein's spirited study."—Stephen Gillers, New York
University School of Law
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