Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton

Reading God''s will and a man''s Last Will as ideas that reinforce one another, this study shows the relevance of England''s early modern crisis, regarding faith in the will of God, to current debates by legal academics on the theory of property and its succession. The increasing power of the dead under law in the US, the UK, and beyond-a concern of recent volumes in law and social sciences-is he...