Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - CHAP T2 - Cormack, Shakespeare and the Law: A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions SP - 121-43 ID - bbbc749 T1 - "Vengeance, Complicity, and Criminal Law in Othello" AU - McAdams, Richard H PY - 2013 DA - 2013 KW - law KW - Iago KW - Othello KW - Desdemona LA - English AB - In examining Iago's criminal behavior, focuses on Shakespeare's critical engagement with early modern criminal law in Othello, pointing out that "Othello refuses to accord Desdemona the very procedures that had vindicated him of a false charge in Act I." Reprinted as Chicago: Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 504, available http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/public_law_and_legal_theory/520/ . ER -