{"product_id":"a-thousand-times-more-fair-what-shakespeares-plays-teach-us-about-justice-isbn-9780061769122","title":"A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Fascinating....Loaded with perceptive and provocative comments on Shakespeare’s plots, characters, and contemporary analogs.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Justice John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court of the United States\u003cp\u003e“Kenji Yoshino is the face and the voice of the new civil rights.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickled and Dimed\u003cp\u003eA Thousand Times More Fair is a highly inventive and provocative exploration of ethics and the law that uses the plays of William Shakespeare as a prism through which to view the nature of justice in our contemporary lives. Celebrated law professor and author Kenji Yoshino delves into ten of the most important works of the Immortal Bard of Avon, offering prescient and thought-provoking discussions of lawyers, property rights, vengeance (legal and otherwise), and restitution that have tremendous significance to the defining events of our times—from the O.J. Simpson trial to Abu Ghraib. Anyone fascinated by important legal and social issues—as well as fans of Shakespeare-centered bestsellers like Will in the World—will find A Thousand Times More Fair an exceptionally rewarding reading experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis incisive analysis of Shakespeare and the law explores:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRevenge and the Rule of Law:\u003c\/b\u003e How \u003ci\u003eTitus Andronicus\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the bloody cycles of vengeance from ancient feuds to the modern war on terror.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Power of Legal Rhetoric:\u003c\/b\u003e A sharp analysis of Portia in \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e and how a lawyer's persuasive skill can bend the law, with parallels to the Clinton scandal.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFact-Finding and Bias:\u003c\/b\u003e Why the \"ocular proof\" of a handkerchief in \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e holds the same dangerous power as the bloody glove in the O.J. Simpson trial.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Burden of Sovereignty:\u003c\/b\u003e A journey through the Henriad, showing how Prince Hal's transformation into Henry V offers a masterclass in establishing legitimate authority.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJustice, Mercy, and Madness:\u003c\/b\u003e How the tragedies of \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e test the absolute limits of human law and divine justice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003eCelebrated legal scholar Kenji Yoshino's first book, \u003cem\u003eCovering\u003c\/em\u003e, was acclaimed—from the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eO\u003c\/em\u003e, The Oprah Magazine to the \u003cem\u003eAmerican Lawyer\u003c\/em\u003e—for its elegant prose, its good humor, and its brilliant insights into civil rights and discrimination law. Now, in \u003cem\u003eA Thousand Times More Fair\u003c\/em\u003e, Yoshino turns his attention to the question of what makes a fair and just society, and delves deep into a surprising source to answer it: Shakespeare's greatest plays. Through fresh and insightful readings of \u003cem\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTitus Andronicus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOthello\u003c\/em\u003e, and others, he addresses the fundamental questions we ask about our world today and elucidates some of the most troubling issues in contemporary life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnormously creative, engaging, and provocative, \u003cem\u003eA Thousand Times More Fair\u003c\/em\u003e is an altogether original book about Shakespeare and the law, and an ideal starting point to explore the nature of a just society–and our own.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“A remarkably imaginative and scholarly work. It reminds us that in Shakespeare’s time, like our own, the law and ideas of justice were in flux.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCalifornia Lawyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[An] insightful inquiry into the contemporary relevance of the Bard’s vision of justice. . . . A refreshing reminder that questions of justice may lead to dramatic poetry, not legal jargon.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In the enlightening and readable \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Times More Fair,\u003c\/i\u003e author Kenji Yoshino opens a window on Shakespearean dramaturgy and scholarship and lets in a breath of fresh air.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[W]ell-informed by scholarship, nuanced and appealingly written. . . . [P]erhaps the most enlightening study of the subject to appear in a century.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharlotte Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Readers will find Yoshino provocative, often controversial, and Shakespeare, as always, entertaining.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The ingenious and well-argued premise of Kenji Yoshino’s new book is that justice in a form that we can understand and relate to modern concepts of legal justice is a pervasive theme of Shakespearean drama, rather than being confined to his two overtly ‘legal’ plays, The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure. Though he discusses them insightfully, he ranges as far afield of those ‘legal’ plays as Titus Andronicus and the Henry plays and The Tempest, juxtaposing them to modern legal and political controversies by doing so demonstrating that Shakespeare, in law as in so much else, remains our contemporary.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudge Richard A. Posner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Until Kenji Yoshino’s book, I had found little of value in ‘Law and Literature’ studies. He redeems the mode. Shakespeare, most capacious of souls, is shown by Yoshino to illuminate the vast and complex structures that must inform the role of law in our struggle for a just society.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarold Bloom, author of SHAKESPEARE: THE INVENTION OF THE HUMAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fascinating. . . . Loaded with perceptive and provocative comments on Shakespeare’s plots, characters, and contemporary analogs.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJustice John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A sensitive and lively mind work[s] its way through the legal themes in some of the most beautiful passages in English literature.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Neither a prosecutor nor a defense lawyer herein, Yoshino is a refreshingly engaging advocate for Shakespeare.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewark Star Ledger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The ingenious and well-argued premise of Kenji Yoshino’s new book is that justice in a form that we can understand and relate to modern concepts of legal justice is a pervasive theme of Shakespearean drama. . . . Shakespeare, in law as in so much else, remains our contemporary.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudge Richard A. Posner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Literary critics comment on Shakespeare’s understanding of law; lawyers love the playwright’s eloquence on legal themes. Now, for the first time, we have a writer who is equally at home in both worlds, and the result is a new interpretation of startling power. Kenji Yoshino is the leading and widest ranging legal theorist of his generation, and he recovers Shakespeare’s lifelong concern with questions of justice--a concern as rich and as relevant in our own day as it was in Elizabethan England. No one interested in either law or literature can afford to miss this book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert A. Ferguson, George Edward Woodberry Professor of Law, Literature, and Criticism, Columbia University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Who knew that there was such a brilliant and fresh reading of Shakespeare waiting to be discovered? Only Kenji Yoshino, with a poet’s ear for language and a lawyer’s passion for justice, could have done it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarol Gilligan, University Professor, NYU\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With inspired and close readings, this beautiful book does justice to Shakespeare’s great plays.  Kenji Yoshino persuasively reveals how much law and justice figure in the Bard’s art and vision.  Journey with this brilliant civil rights scholar and you will learn far more about the limits and reaches of human justice than in countless volumes of conventional legal analysis.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartha Minow, Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shakespeare famously rewards intensity of engagement, and Kenji Yoshino brings to his lively reading of the plays the full force of his passionate brooding on issues of justice in contemporary society. Whether he is writing about Titus Andronicus and the post-9\/11 war on terror, Portia’s parsing of words in The Merchant of Venice and Bill Clinton’s notorious “[i]t depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is,” the dilemmas of judgment in Measure for Measure and the confirmation hearings for now-Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Desdemona’s handkerchief and the ill-fitting glove in the O.J. Simpson trial, Yoshino forges mutually illuminating connections between the theater and the law. A Thousand Times More Fair is a book that will appeal to anyone interested in the uses of great art to reflect on some of our culture’s most vexing problems.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Greenblatt, author of WILL IN THE WORLD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kenji Yoshino brings to his lively reading of the plays the full force of his passionate brooding on issues of justice in contemporary society. 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