The Elsinore Appeal: People V. Hamlet - Hardcover

The Elsinore Appeal is the "record" of a fanciful appeal of Hamlet's conviction as a serial murderer. The book contains the briefs for and against Hamlet by attorney Daniel Kornstein and law professor Stephen Gillers and the text of oral argument before a panel of federal judges and a Shakespearean professor. The briefs are clever and thought-provoking; the transcript of the hearing is amusing and fun. However, the book suffers from a lack of a real introduction, providing neither the literary background useful to someone who has not read Hamlet since high school nor the legal information necesary to understand the nature of an appeals proceeding and the documents presented. The text of the play is included as an appendix. Readers interested in a more serious examination of the legal issues in Hamlet are directed to Kornstein's Kill All the Lawyers? (Princeton Univ., 1994). An optional purchase for law and academic libraries.?Patrick Petit, Catholic Univ. Law Lib., Washington, D.C.
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