Eternal Bonds, True Contracts

Uses legal and literary resources to explore Shakespeare's use of the law and its instruments in the problem plays. In Eternal Bonds, True Contracts, A. G. Harmon closely analyzes Shakespeare's concentrated use of the law and its instruments in what have often been referred to as the problem plays: Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, The Merchant of Venice, and All's Well That Ends Well. Contracts, bonds, sureties, wills-all ensure a changed relationship between parties, and in Shakespear