1. `Fie, painted rhetoric!' Common Law, Satire and the Language of the Beast
I. Oratory, Empire and Common Law
II. Rhetoric, Method and the English Lawyer
III. Our English Martiall: John Davies of the Middle Temple
IV. Love's Labour's Lost, the Inns of Court and the Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
2. Princes Set Upon Stages: Macbeth, Treason and the Theatre of Law
I. Compassing or Imagining Regicide
II. Of Such Horror, and Monstrous Nature: The Juridical Enactment of Betrayal
III. Royal Succession as Theatre of the Whole World
IV. Treason and the King's Two Bodies
3. The Winter's Tale: An Art Lawful as Eating
I. Law, Literature and Genealogy
II. Horticulture, Transformation and the Artifice of Law
III. The Nature of Law
IV. Inheritance, Gender and the Common Law Tradition
V. The Arts of Portraiture and Politics
4. Cymbeline: Empire, Nationhood and the Jacobean Aeneid
I. Some Footsteps in the Law
II. A Law Inscribed upon the Heart
III. Postnati. Calvin's Case and the Journey of Jacobean Law
IV. The Divine Purpose, Nature and the Equivocal Image
V. The Nationalist Ends of Myth
5. The Tempest: The Island of Law in Jacobean England
I. Cannibals, Colonies and the Brave New World
II. Utopia and the Legal Imagination
III. Enchanted Islands of Common Law.