Professor Gary Watt: 2 books
Shakespeare's Acts of Will
Law, Testament and Properties of Performance
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Shakespeare was born into a new age of will, in which individual intent had the potential to overcome dynastic expectation. The 1540 Statute of Wills had liberated testamentary disposition of land and thus marked a turning point from hierarchical feudal tradition to horizontal free trade. Focusing...
Dress, Law and Naked Truth
A Cultural Study of Fashion and Form
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Why are civil authorities in so-called liberal democracies affronted by public nudity and the Islamic full-face 'veil'? Why is law and civil order so closely associated with robes, gowns, suits, wigs and uniforms? Why is law so concerned with the 'evident' and the need for justice to be 'seen' to...