A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice
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In A Thousand Times More Fair, Kenji Yoshino, celebrated law professor and author of the acclaimed memoir Covering, offers a fresh reading of a dozen seminal Shakespeare plays to show how they provide parable of justice relevant to our lives today. Yoshino examines how models of judging presented in Measure for Measure resurfaced during the confirmation hearings for Justice Sonia Sotomayor; how the obsession with the "white handkerchief" in Othello was replicated in the "black glove" of the O.J. Simpson trial; how the vigilantism created by the weak state in Titus Andronicus has unfolded again in the war on terror in the years since the 9/11 attacks; and much more. A provocative and insightful book, A Thousand Times More Fair reveals Shakespeare's canon to be an ideal starting point to explore the nature of a just society - and our own.
Publication Date
2011
Edition
1
Recommended Citation
Yoshino, Kenji, "A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice" (2011). Faculty Books & Edited Works. 740.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-books-edited-works/740
