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Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Considered

Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Considered

Campbell, John Lord

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ISBN10: 1417937696
ISBN13: 9781417937691
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Jul 26 2004
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Considered is a book written by John Lord Campbell that examines the legal knowledge and expertise of William Shakespeare, one of the greatest playwrights in history. The book explores how Shakespeare's legal education and experience influenced his writing and shaped his understanding of the law. Through an analysis of his plays and sonnets, Campbell highlights Shakespeare's legal vocabulary, his understanding of legal concepts, and his ability to depict legal proceedings accurately. The book also delves into the legal context of Shakespeare's time, including the legal system, the role of lawyers, and the major legal issues of the day. Overall, Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Considered offers a fascinating insight into the relationship between Shakespeare's legal knowledge and his literary genius.1859. In a letter to J. Payne Collier. The 19th century saw a Golden Age of books supporting the proposition that Shakespeare possessed an extensive and unerring knowledge of the law. Although the first mention was made by lawyer and Shakespeare editor Edmund Malone in 1778, it was not until 1858-1859 that the idea began to take hold with the publication of two books: William Rushton's Shakespeare a Lawyer, and Lord Chief Justice John Campbell's Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Considered. Lord Campbell, by far the most influential, gives his unequivocal opinion of Shakespeare's use of legal terms: I am amazed, not only by their number, but by the accuracy and propriety with which they are uniformly introduce. While Novelists and Dramatists are constantly making mistakes as to the law of marriage, of wills, and of inheritance, to Shakespeare's law, lavishly as he propounds it, there can neither be demurrer nor bill of exceptions, nor writ of error.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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