"Desperately mortal": exclusion in Shakespeare's legal plays Morss, John 2007, "Desperately mortal": exclusion in Shakespeare's legal plays, Deakin law review, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 181-191. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads morss-desperatelymortal-2007.pdf Published version application/pdf 285.16KB 35 Title "Desperately mortal": exclusion in Shakespeare's legal plays Author(s) Morss, John orcid.org/0000-0002-0925-2525 Journal name Deakin law review Volume number 12 Issue number 1 Start page 181 End page 191 Publisher School of Law, Deakin University Place of publication Melbourne, Vic Publication date 2007 ISSN 1321-3660 Summary Shakespeare's most explicitly 'legal' plays are The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure. Both examine the interaction between human desire on one hand and the law on the other. In both plays laws cuts through the social hierarchies, either neutralising or exaggerating them. Key characters find their exclusion nullified by the law, and then discover inclusion is far worse than exclusion. Language eng Field of Research 180199 Law not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970118 Expanding Knowledge in Law and Legal Studies HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2007, Deakin University Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30007196 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Law Higher Education Research Group Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 20 Nov 2008, 13:49:06 EST Thu, 11 Jun 2009, 12:40:33 EST Tue, 01 Nov 2011, 15:12:52 EST Tue, 01 Nov 2011, 15:13:49 EST Mon, 01 Jun 2015, 14:11:21 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 10:35:42 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 643 Abstract Views, 35 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 29 Sep 2008, 08:49:23 EST

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