Kill All the Lawyers?: Shakespeare's Legal Appeal - Softcover

Kornstein, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803278217 ISBN 13: 9780803278219

Publisher: Bison Books, 2005

Synopsis

Two-thirds of Shakespeare’s plays have trial scenes, and many deal specifically with lawyers, courts, judges, and points of law. Daniel Kornstein, a practicing attorney, looks at the legal issues and aspects of Shakespeare’s plays and finds fascinating parallels with many legal and social questions of the present day. The Elizabethan age was as litigious as our own, and Shakespeare was very familiar with the language and procedures of the courts. Kill All the Lawyers? examines the ways in which Shakespeare used the law for dramatic effect and incorporated the passion for justice into his great tragedies and comedies and considers the modern legal relevance of his work. This is a ground-breaking study in the field of literature and the law, ambitious and suggestive of the value of both our literary and our legal inheritance.

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From the Back Cover:

"I thoroughly enjoyed Daniel Kornstein's book. Inventive, gracefully composed, Kill All the Lawyers is great reading. Even Shakespeare would nod his head approvingly."--Jack Valenti, President and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America

"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

"What can Shakespeare teach the law and lawyers? Only everything: How to use language, how to tell stories, how to think about justice. The first thing we do is master Shakespeare. And there is no better place to start or continue this joyous task than with Daniel Kornstein's spirited study."--Stephen Gillers, New York University School of Law

About the Author:

Daniel Kornstein was president of the Law and Humanities Institute and is a founding partner of the firm of Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard, LLP, in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bison Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0803278217
• ISBN 13: 9780803278219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274