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Preface; Acknowledgements: 1. Natural Law in history and Renaissanceliterature; 2. The heritage of classical Natural Law; 3. The reception ofNatural Law in Renaissance England; 4. Law and literature insixteenth-century England; 5. More's Utopia; 6. 'Love is the fulfilling ofthe law': Arcadia and Love's Labour's Lost; 7. 'Hot temper leaps o'er a colddecree': The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure; 8. Shakespeare's TheHistory of King Lear; 9. Milton and Natural Law; Epilogue: Hobbes and thedemise of classical Natural Law; Appendix: Aquinas on the right to ownprivate property; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.