Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Performative Subversions: Portia, Language, and the Law in The Merchant of Venice -- "Proceed in justice": Narratives of Marital Betrayal in The Winter's Tale -- Poisoned Justice: Passion and Politics in The Winter's Tale -- The Trials of Mary Stuart: Anxious Circulations in John Webster's Drama -- Forensic Performances: Evidentiary Narrative in Arden of Faversham -- Shakespeare's Bed-tricks: Finding Justice in Lies? -- "What Is Yours Is Mine": Sexual and Social Complementarity in the Trial Scenes of Measure for Measure -- Striking a Deal: Portia's Trial Strategy in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.