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Shakespeare and Real Property

By Christine Corcos

Bradin Cormack has published "Strange Love, Or, Holding Lands," in volume 1 of Law & Humanities (2007). Here is the abstract.

This paper explores how, in Shakespeare?s sonnets (and in the plays), Shakespeare looks to legal tenure and the mechanics of common-law possession to explore the claim of erotic relation and erotic estrangement on the speaking self and its "self-possession." The connection between land and love that Shakespeare?s texts deploy, charge and amplify was of some use to the common lawyers themselves. In the erotics of land law, I argue, we thus find a topic whose contours demand an approach to law and literature that respects the law?s dynamics, as well as the sonnets?.

Download the article here from SSRN (priced).

Full post as published by Law & Humanities Blog on April 29, 2008 (boomark / email).