Widely known for its famous soliloquies, Shakespeare’s Hamlet is often argued to stress the importance of the individual experience. Although these arguments are persuasive, they leave out the essential evidence within the play for collaboration and public spaces. This essay considers how Hamlet illuminates Shakespeare’s account of selfhood, which I will suggest is collaborative rather than individual. It does so by proposing that Hamlet models a legal public. This legal public consists of juries that are made up not only by characters within the play but also by audience members and are formed in order to provide answers to the wealth of epistemological questions posed by the play. To make this argument, I will first reflect on the relati...
Shakespeare was fascinated by law, which permeated Elizabethan everyday life. The general impression...
This article examines the politics of privacy and the public drama of the English Renaissance commer...
Habermas’ sense of a “cultural Public Sphere” is a notoriously complex term and, when applied to Ear...
This paper addresses questions of legal and political theory concerning representations of law, sove...
The Shakespeare Moot Court is a form of serious play that inspires participating legal and literary ...
Through an examination of five plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield analyses the contiguous developme...
This article examines the intersection between theatrical and political discourse in early modern En...
Hamlet, at once the best-known of all revenge tragedies and a significant departure from its predece...
Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies offers the first sustained examination of the relationship between law...
This volume introduces 'civic Shakespeare' as a new and complex category entailing the dynamic relat...
Many readers have noted the abundant references to law in Shakespeare\u27s Hamlet. Indeed, a whole s...
Ranging widely across law, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy, this book offers the first account ...
The audiences of early modern English drama were multiple, and they intersected with the legal syste...
In July 2007, the School of Law at the University of Warwick hosted an international conference on '...
A phenomenological analysis of Shakespeare’s plays suggests that characters who testify after having...
Shakespeare was fascinated by law, which permeated Elizabethan everyday life. The general impression...
This article examines the politics of privacy and the public drama of the English Renaissance commer...
Habermas’ sense of a “cultural Public Sphere” is a notoriously complex term and, when applied to Ear...
This paper addresses questions of legal and political theory concerning representations of law, sove...
The Shakespeare Moot Court is a form of serious play that inspires participating legal and literary ...
Through an examination of five plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield analyses the contiguous developme...
This article examines the intersection between theatrical and political discourse in early modern En...
Hamlet, at once the best-known of all revenge tragedies and a significant departure from its predece...
Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies offers the first sustained examination of the relationship between law...
This volume introduces 'civic Shakespeare' as a new and complex category entailing the dynamic relat...
Many readers have noted the abundant references to law in Shakespeare\u27s Hamlet. Indeed, a whole s...
Ranging widely across law, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy, this book offers the first account ...
The audiences of early modern English drama were multiple, and they intersected with the legal syste...
In July 2007, the School of Law at the University of Warwick hosted an international conference on '...
A phenomenological analysis of Shakespeare’s plays suggests that characters who testify after having...
Shakespeare was fascinated by law, which permeated Elizabethan everyday life. The general impression...
This article examines the politics of privacy and the public drama of the English Renaissance commer...
Habermas’ sense of a “cultural Public Sphere” is a notoriously complex term and, when applied to Ear...