Introduction / Dennis Kezar -- Jonson and the tribe of law. -- Trial by theater : Jonson, Marston, and Dekker in the court of Parnassus / Matthew Greenfield -- The law versus the marketplace in Jonson's Bartholomew Fair / Paul Cantor -- Ben Jonson and London courtrooms / Frances Teague -- Legal rhetoric and theatrical pressure. -- "They took from me the use of mine own house" : land law in Shakespeare's Lear and Shakespeare's culture / Heather Dubrow -- Sycorax's "thing" / Ernest B. Gilman -- The witch of Edmonton and the guilt of possession / Dennis Kezar -- Law staged and theory troubled. -- "Paper bullets" : texts, lies, and censorship in early modern England / Debora Shuger -- "So many books, so many rolls of ancient time" : the Inns of Court and Gorboduc / Karen J. Cunningham -- The rich cabinet : Bacon, Chapman, and the culture of corruption / Luke Wilson