“…Warwick's contrast of law with such masculine aff airs as armed, athletic, or sexual conquest casts law as that which uses language not as a superior alternative to violence, but merely as the wily, manipulative, 'women's' weapon of words (e.g., TS 2.1.137). And nothing plagues Hamlet more than either impotence (his immobility being perhaps the play's most famous theme 47 (e.g., Ham. 3.4.106-7; 4.4.38-45)) or femininity (his misogyny is notorious 48 (e.g., Ham.…”