Criminal Types in Shakespeare
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Publisher: Ardent Media
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Total Pages: 284
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Criminal Types in Shakespeare
Author: August Goll
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare's Criminals
Author: Victoria M. Time
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1999-11-30
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0313003742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy exploring Shakespeare's use of law and justice themes in the context of historical and contemporary criminological thinking, this book challenges criminologists to expand their spheres of inquiry to avenues that have yet to be explored or integrated into the discipline. Crime writers, including William Shakespeare, were some of the earliest investigators of the criminal mind. However, since the formalization of criminology as a discipline, citations from literary works have often been omitted, despite their interdisciplinary nature. Taking various Shakespearean plays and characters as case studies, this book opens novel theoretical avenues for conceptualizing crime and justice issues. What types of crimes did Shakespeare's characters commit? What were the motivations put forth for these crimes? What type of social control did Shakespeare advocate? By utilizing a content analysis procedure, the author confirms that many of the crimes that plague society today were also prevalent in Shakespeare's time. She gleans twelve criminological theories as motivations for character deviance. Character analysis also provides valuable insight into Shakespeare's notions of formal and informal social control.
Shakespeare's Criminals
Author: Victoria M. Time
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1999-11-30
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy exploring Shakespeare's use of law and justice themes in the context of historical and contemporary criminological thinking, this book challenges criminologists to expand their spheres of inquiry to avenues that have yet to be explored or integrated into the discipline. Crime writers, including William Shakespeare, were some of the earliest investigators of the criminal mind. However, since the formalization of criminology as a discipline, citations from literary works have often been omitted, despite their interdisciplinary nature. Taking various Shakespearean plays and characters as case studies, this book opens novel theoretical avenues for conceptualizing crime and justice issues. What types of crimes did Shakespeare's characters commit? What were the motivations put forth for these crimes? What type of social control did Shakespeare advocate? By utilizing a content analysis procedure, the author confirms that many of the crimes that plague society today were also prevalent in Shakespeare's time. She gleans twelve criminological theories as motivations for character deviance. Character analysis also provides valuable insight into Shakespeare's notions of formal and informal social control.
Commentaries on the Law in Shakespeare
Author: Edward Joseph White
Publisher: Fred B. Rothman
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 592
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrime and Punishment in the England of Shakespeare and Milton, 1570-1640
Author: John W. Weatherford
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2001-04-20
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780786409631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrime has been present in all cultures and societies, since the beginning of time. This work focuses on the punishments common in England around the time of Shakespeare and Milton, presenting descriptions of more than fifty criminal cases. Information comes from narratives printed for the popular news media at the time of the event. Details of everyday life in England and facts about the English legal environment of the era are brought to light. Also revealed through the narratives are issues present in society today--i. e., the status of women, poverty, and corruption. Individual cases are discussed under chapters devoted to specific types of crimes.
Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso
Author: Greta Olson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-12-12
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 3110339846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCriminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso demonstrates how animal metaphors have been used to denigrate persons identified as criminal in literature, law, and science. Its three-part history traces the popularization of the 'criminal beast' metaphor in late sixteenth-century England, the troubling of the trope during the long eighteenth century, and the late nineteenth-century discovery of criminal atavism. With chapters on rogue pamphlets, Shakespeare, Webster, Jonson, Defoe and Swift, Godwin, Dickens, and Lombroso, the book illustrates how ideologically inscribed metaphors foster transfers between law, penal practices, and literature. Criminals as Animals concludes that criminal-animal metaphors continue to negatively influence the treatment of prisoners, suspected terrorists, and the poor even today.
Shakespeare and the Lawyers
Author: O Hood Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1135032742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1972. Shakespeare's writing abounds with legal terms and allusions and in many of the plays the concept and working of the law is a significant theme. Shakespeare and the Lawyers gives a comprehensive survey of what Shakespeare wrote about the law and lawyers, and what has been written, particularly by lawyers, about Shakespeare's life and works in relation to the law. The book first reviews the recorded facts about Shakespeare's life and works, and his connection with the Inns of Court. It then discusses legal terms, allusions and plots in the plays; Shakespeare's treatment of the problems of law, justice and government; his description of lawyers and officers of the law; his references to actual legal personalities; and his trial scenes. Two further chapters consider the criticisms that have been made of Shakespeare's law, and the contribution to Shakespeare studies by lawyers.
Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction
Author: Lisa Hopkins
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-21
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1137538759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores why crime fiction so often alludes to Shakespeare. It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four ‘queens of crime’ (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin, as well as more recent authors such as Reginald Hill, Kate Atkinson and Val McDermid. It also looks at the fondness for Shakespearean allusion in a number of television crime series, most notably Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse and Lewis, and considers the special sub-genre of detective stories in which a lost Shakespeare play is found. It shows how Shakespeare facilitates discussions about what constitutes justice, what authorises the detective to track down the villain, who owns the countryside, national and social identities, and the question of how we measure cultural value.
A Selective Bibliography of Shakespeare
Author: James G. McManaway
Publisher: Associated University Presses
Published: 1978-07
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780918016034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bibliography provides easy access to the most important Shakespeare studies in the past four decades. Brief annotations, a detailed table of contents, cross-references, and a complete index make this bibliography especially useful.
