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Author
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Date published
2012
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Publisher
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012.
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Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Knowledge Law.
Law and literature England History 16th century
Law and literature England History 17th century
English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism
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Accession number
8341053
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Class
65.11/JEN
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ISBN
9781409454847
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Language
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Physical description
236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents: Introduction : Theological will and human last will -- Reading for revelation, election as willful curse, and grace in the origins of English common law -- Hamlet : elected to annihilation -- Macbeth : murderous rivalry over succession control; inheritance of grace as state of exception -- Merchant : Portia's will and the grace of forebear-and-follower bonds -- Tempest : renouncing the grip on the daughter; Prospero and Alonzo's partnership beyond last wills -- Machiavellian virtu´ and time -- Paradise lost : Satan as disappointed second son; two last wills and "reason" as cover for insistences -- Epilogue : A humanities-based approach to current U.S. inheritance law