Shakespeare's Legal Ecologies

Offers the first sustained examination of the relationship between law and selfhood in Shakespeare's work. Taking five plays and the sonnets as case studies, Kevin Curran argues that law provided Shakespeare with the conceptual resources to imagine selfhood in social and distributed terms, as a product of interpersonal exchange or as a gathering of various material forces.

Ecologiile legale ale lui Shakespeare ofera prima examinare sustinuta a relatiei dintre lege si egoism in lucrarea lui Shakespeare. Luand cinci piese si sonete ca studii de caz, Kevin Curran sustine ca legea i-a oferit lui Shakespeare resursele conceptuale pentru a-si imagina egoismul in termeni sociali si distribuiti, ca produs al schimbului interpersonal sau ca adunare a diferitelor forte materiale.