Introduction. Shakespeare at large: law and the First Folio
Matteo Nicolini
1. Shakespeare’s testament: England in 1623
Ian Ward
2. Shakespeare and the theatre of early modern law
Paul Raffield
3. Performing a constitution: a history of Magna Carta in Shakespeare’s King John
Ruth Houghton
4. ‘The tribunes of the people, the tongues o’ the common mouth’: parliamentarians as representatives when scrutinizing laws
Sean Mulcahy and Kate Seear
5. Caliban as legal subject: The Tempest and Renaissance juridical thought
Wojciech Engelking
6. Exploring authorship and ownership of plays at the time of William Shakespeare’s First Folio
Luke McDonagh
7. Shakespeare and Voltaire: both legally vulnerable and successful
Silvia Ferreri
Afterword
Gary Watt
Index
Biography
Matteo Nicolini, PhD, is Professor of Public Comparative Law at the Department of Law at the University of Verona, Italy, where he teaches Comparative Constitutional Traditions and Global Comparative Law. He is also Visiting Lecturer at the Newcastle University Law School, UK, as well as an External Partner of the Centre for the Study of Law in Theory and Practice (LTAP) at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He is the author of several monographs, articles, and essays in the fields of comparative federalism, constitutional adjudication, legal geography, law and literature, and comparative legal methodology.
