The Second Best Bed: Shakespeare's Will in a New LightBloomsbury Academic, 24.05.1993 - 160 Seiten Joyce Rogers sheds new light upon Shakespeare's last public words through her study of medieval and Renaissance ecclesiastical and testamentary laws and custom. Professor Rogers provides extensive background material on English legal history and shows that the legal documents of the time do give legal answer to the doubts and speculations that have grown up around Shakespeare's will. She shows how the will is replete with elements of civil and common as well as ecclesiastical law and custom, making more understandable the disputed points of Shakespeare's will, and establishing that the will was as correct, incontestable, and conventional as possible. |
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... English law . Indeed , in its balance of various legal components , Shakespeare's will may be seen as very much a product of the shifting systems within English law itself , poised at the watershed of its own history . All points of the ...
... English Law , ” SEAALH , 2:35 ) . Maitland regarded Bracton's work as " the crown and flower of English mediaeval jurisprudence , " quoted in Brunner , 35 . 11. Commentaries 2 : iii and v . I used the London 1800 ed . as well . 12. The ...
... English Wills in the Court of Pro- bate , London : A.D. 1387-1439 ; with a priest's of 1454 , No. 78 , Early English Text Society [ EETS ] ( London : Trubner , 1882 ) 114 . 8. Charles Williams , A Short Life of Shakespeare , an ...
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The Will as Solemn Testament | 21 |
The Will and the Times | 43 |
The Will as Religious Testament | 71 |
Urheberrecht | |
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