Joyce Rogers

Gebundenes Buch

The Second Best Bed

Shakespeare's Will in a New Light

Beschreibung

Joyce Rogers sheds new light upon Shakespeare's last public words through her study of medieval and Renaissance ecclesiastical and testamentary laws and custom. Professor Rogers provides extensive background material on English legal history and shows that the legal documents of the time do give legal answer to the doubts and speculations that have grown up around Shakespeare's will. She shows how the will is replete with elements of civil and common as well as ecclesiastical law and custom, making more understandable the disputed points of Shakespeare's will, and establishing that the will was as correct, incontestable, and conventional as possible. The main thrust of the book, however, is not on the law as such. It is on how the law was used by Shakespeare to serve the best interests and needs of the women and children in his family as well as the friends named therein. As such, the book will be invaluable to students and scholars of Elizabethan society and to all Shakespearean scholars.

Autor

-ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joyce Rogers is an author, speaker, and wife of the late Dr. Adrian Rogers, pastor for thirty-two years of the well-known Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, and the three-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention. A pioneer of women's ministry in the Southern Baptist Convention and a Bible teacher for sixty years, Joyce loves encouraging and challenging others in their Christian walk by speaking to ministers' wives, widows, and women of all ages. She is a committed homemaker and mother of five children, grandmother of nine, and great-grandmother of seven.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780313288319
• ISBN-10: 0313288313
• Artikelnr.: 21801550