The Law in Cervantes and Shakespeare

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-47063-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

Building on her earlier work, Law and Literature, María José Falcón y Tella’s new study takes a fresh look at the law in the works of two of the greatest authors in world literature: Cervantes and Shakespeare. In doing so, she examines subjects as wide-ranging as individual rights and freedoms, government and the administration of justice, criminal law, civil law, labor law, commercial law, and the treatment of mental illness, among others.

This original and thought-provoking volume offers readers insight into the law “as” literature and the law “in” literature through the prism of masterpieces such as Don Quixote and Hamlet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falcón Y Tella, María José

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Spanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Beziehungen des Rechts zu anderen Disziplinen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

María José Falcón y Tella is Professor of Legal Philosophy (1991) of the Complutense University of Madrid. She is the author of 30 books, many of them translated into different languages. The English-language versions of Civil Disobedience (2004), Punishment and Culture (2006), Equity and Law (2008), A Three-Dimensional Theory of Law (2010), Jurisprudence in Roman, Anglosaxon and Continental Law (2011), Justice and Law (2014), Law and Literature (2016) and Challenges to Legal Theory. Essays in Honour of Professor José Iturmendi Morales (2021), were published with Brill/Nijhoff. She was awarded the “National Prize of Studies in Law” in 1987.