Shakespeare
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Playwright whose 'Henry V' dramatizes the English argument on the Salic law.
What were the ideas about the Salic law which were common in this country from one hundred to one hundred and fifty years after the conclusion of this quarrel may be gathered from Shakespeare’s ‘Henry V.
The Law of Intellectual Property
English poet and dramatist cited as an example of a unique intellectual producer.
Who can suppose that the poems of Homer, Shakespeare, and Milton, or the orations of Demosthenes, Cicero, and Burke, would ever have seen the light, had not Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, Demosthenes, Cicero and Burke themselves existed?
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
William Shakespeare, whose play King John is cited as evidence of the Charter's neglect in the Tudor period.
Shakespeare’s King John has nothing to say of Runnymede or what happened there.
Law in a Free State
English playwright named as one of the hypothetical shipwrecked crew.
Shipwrecked on a desert island well tenanted by wild beasts, who would be the fittest in the following crew—Socrates, Seneca, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Sykes (the world-renowned Bill)?