Richard II: Shakespeare’s Legal Brief
This paper, produced as a term paper in an independent study course in law school, was published in the Georgetown Law Journal in 1982. To my great pleasure, other scholars still cite it from time to time. Let me again thank my supervisor, Professor Alice Brumbaugh, Emerita of the University of Maryland School of Law, for shepherding this one-of-a-kind project through.
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Richard II: Shakespeares’s Legal Brief on the Royal Prerogative and the Succession to the Throne
I lived in London and Vienna before coming to the United States, and grew up mainly in Ann Arbor. I was writing plays and stories as early as grade school. My undergraduate years at the University of Pennsylvania, where I first reviewed theater, for the college paper, were succeeded by graduate study at the Johns Hopkins University, where I earned a doctorate in English Literature.