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A Thousand Times More Fair
Kenji Yoshino
What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice
Ecco
April 2011
On Sale: April 12, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 006176910X
EAN: 9780061769108
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A provocative exploration of justice in our time through
fresh readings of Shakespeare's greatest plays Celebrated legal scholar Kenji Yoshino's first book,
Covering, was acclaimed–from the New York Times
Book Review to O, The Oprah Magazine to the
American Lawyer–for its elegant prose, its good
humor, and its brilliant insights into civil rights and
discrimination law. Now, in A Thousand Times More
Fair, Yoshino turns his attention to the broad question
of what makes a fair and just society, and he delves deep
into a surprising source to answer it: Shakespeare's
greatest plays.
An enormously creative and provocative book, A Thousand
Times More Fair addresses fundamental questions we ask
about our world today: Why is the rule of law better than
revenge? How much mercy should we show a wrongdoer? What
does it mean to "prove" guilt or innocence? As Yoshino
argues, a searching examination of Shakespeare's plays–and
the many advocates, judges, criminals, and vigilantes who
populate them–can elucidate some of the most troubling
issues in contemporary life.
With a great ear for Shakespeare and an eye trained steadily
on current affairs, Yoshino considers how competing models
of judging presented in Measure for Measure
resurfaced around the confirmation hearings for Supreme
Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor; how the revenge cycle of
Titus Andronicus illuminates the "war on terror" and
our military engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq; how the
white handkerchief in Othello and the black glove in
the O. J. Simpson trial reflect forms of proof that
overwhelm all other evidence; and how the spectacle of an
omnipotent ruler voluntarily surrendering power in The
Tempest, as Cincinnatus did before him and George
Washington did after him, informs regime change in our own time.
A Thousand Times More Fair 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.
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