ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book This book is intended to be a coherent, serious, and relatively accessible account, even-handed but with an individual critical personality, to an area of ongoing concern in Shakespeare studies and Law and Literature studies, an introductory overview of the relations between Shakespeare and law. Shakespeare appears regularly, more often than other writers although in no way overwhelmingly, in general studies of Law and Literature. The book deals with Shakespeare now, what has been called the Shakespeare industry or rhizome, and how what is done under the name of Shakespeare continues to be affected by law, but in different ways from in the past.
