Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-vii

List of Contributors

pp viii-x

Introduction

pp 1-18

Part I - Staging Judgment: Deliberation in the Plays

pp 19-20

1 - Preventive Justice in Measure for Measure

pp 21-44

2 - Believing in Ghosts, in Part: Judgment and Indecision in Hamlet

pp 45-70

3 - Shakespeare's Law and Plowden's Authority

pp 71-90

Part II - Audience Judgment: Deliberation in the Theater

pp 91-92

4 - “Gently to hear, kindly to judge”: Minds at Work in Henry V

pp 93-114

5 - “Practis[ing] judgment with the disposition of natures”: Measure for Measure, the “Discoursive” Common Law, and the “Open Court” of the Theater

pp 115-138

6 - The Laws of Measure for Measure

pp 139-156

7 - Prospero's Plea: Judgment, Invention, and Political Form in The Tempest

pp 157-172

Part III - The Ethics of Judgment

pp 173-174

8 - Antinomian Shakespeare: English Drama and Confession Across the Reformation Divide

pp 175-194

9 - Bracketed Judgment, “Un-humanizing,” and Conversion in The Merchant of Venice

pp 195-214

10 - The Judgment of the Critics that Makes us Tremble: “Distributing Complicities” in Recent Criticism of King Lear

pp 215-234

Index

pp 235-238