Law Practice
May 8, 2009
Law's Prince of Darkness
What Shakespeare had to say about law and language - language he largely shaped - applies today with extra force.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
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Whittier Law School
Arguably the most famous scene in unarguably literature's most famous play is written largely for lawyers, by a playwright so fluent in law's language that some commentators contend he must have been one. It's first performance was likely in one of London's Inns of Court, in effect, a law school. And it opens with a comic exegesis of a notorious legal case decided four decades before the first performance.
Regrettably, modern performances cut the relatively obscure lines most dire...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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