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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 on Shakespeare's late Elizabethan plays, Gary Watt demonstrates

Title : Shakespeare's Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance (Arden Shakespeare)
Author : Gary Watt
Language : en
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