Shakespeare's Acts of Will
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 9572
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 9781474217866
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book is submitted for consideration as a double-weighted output. The books results from many years’ sustained research effort into the delivery of rhetoric and analysis of source material in Shakespeare’s late Elizabethan plays. The book explores the creative dimension of law through the related concepts of ‘will’ and ‘testament’ by analysing Shakespeare’s appreciation of testamentary tensions arising from the (then) emerging shift from hierarchical feudal tradition to horizontal free trade as a result of the 1540 Statute of Wills. This also provides new understanding of various legal and literary echoes and interconnections between law and the humanities.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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