Shakespeare and the Law

Gary Watt, Professor of Law, University of Warwick

Gary Watt is Professor of Law, The University of Warwick. He co-founded the journal Law and Humanities and is general editor of Bloomsbury’s Cultural History of Law. He has held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship on rhetorical performance and as a National Teaching Fellow and national ’Law Teacher of the Year’ (2009) for many years delivered rhetoric workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His books include Shakespeare’s Acts of Will (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare), Dress, Law, and Naked Truth (Bloomsbury), Trusts and Equity (Oxford), The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law (Cambridge) and Equity Stirring (Hart).