The Law in Cervantes and Shakespeare / / María José Falcón y Tella.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Law in Literature
- 3 Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
- 3.1 Historical Background
- 3.2 Life
- 3.3 The Omnipresence of Legal Themes in Cervantes's Works
- 4 Don Quixote of La Mancha
- 4.1 General Observations on the Work
- 4.2 Law and Literature in Don Quixote
- 4.3 The Sanchification of Don Quixote and the Quixotization of Sancho
- 4.4 Don Quixote, a Left-Wing Democrat
- 4.5 The Character of Dulcinea del Toboso
- 4.6 Significance of the Curate's Character in Don Quixote
- 4.7 The Quixotism of Christopher Columbus
- 4.8 A "Golden Age Speech" with Communist Undertones
- 4.9 Defense of Nationalities and Languages
- 4.10 Knights-errant According to Don Quixote
- 4.11 Individual Rights and Freedoms in Don Quixote
- A General Observations
- B The Question of Cervantes and Human Rights
- C Honor
- D Women in Don Quixote
- E The Right to Freedom of Thought: General Observations
- F Jews and New Christians: Antisemitism and Blood Purity
- G Moors and Moriscos. The Basque and Indiano Cases
- H Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft
- I Censorship
- a Censorship "in" the Work
- b Censorship "of" the Work
- J The Inquisition
- K Elder Law
- 4.12 War and Peace
- A Is War Ever Just?
- a General Observations on Just War Theory
- b Was the War in Iraq a Just War?
- c Evolution of the Concept of Just War After 9/11
- B War in Don Quixote
- 4.13 Monarchy, States, and Republic
- 4.14 On Government and the Administration of Justice
- A Proverbs
- B The Government of the Island of Barataria
- C The Episode of the Galley Slaves
- D Arbitration
- 4.15 Criminal Law
- A General Observations
- B Aggravating and Mitigating Factors in the Novel
- C Specific Crimes Mentioned in the Novel
- D Don Quixote's View of Delinquents
- E Toward a More Humane Criminal Law: The Privatization of Criminal Law
- a Historical Background
- b Comparative Law
- c Restorative Justice and Probation in Criminal Law
- d Repairing Harm: Toward a Conciliatory System
- e What If We Did Away with Punishment?
- f Handling Conflict as an Inevitability
- g Resocializing Society to Make It Less Unjust Rather than Resocializing the Individual
- h The Perfection of Criminal Law
- i Dealing with a Complex Interdisciplinary Problem
- 4.16 Civil Law
- A General Observations
- B The Last Will and Testament of Alonso Quixano
- C Marriage in Don Quixote
- D Civil Tort Law
- 4.17 Labor Law
- A General Observations
- B The Remunerative Relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho: Wages or Rewards?
- 4.18 Commercial Law
- A The Business Activity of Inns from the Perspective of the Accommodation Contract
- B The "Ass-Colt Order" as a Glimpse of the Law of Negotiable Instruments
- 4.19 Tax Law
- 4.20 Procedural Law
- 4.21 Aristocratic Law
- 4.22 Madness in Don Quixote
- 4.23 Values in the Work
- A Freedom
- B Equality
- C Justice
- 4.24 Love in Don Quixote
- 4.25 Legal Material: Sources of Law
- 4.26 The Geopoetic Landscape
- 5 William Shakespeare
- 5.1 Life
- A Relevant Legal Aspects of Shakespeare's Life
- B Correlations between the Life and Work of Cervantes and Shakespeare
- 5.2 Work
- A King Lear
- a Legal Aspects of the Work
- b Madness in King Lear
- B The Merchant of Venice
- a Legal Aspects of the Work
- b Similarities to Don Quixote
- C Hamlet
- a Legal Aspects of Hamlet
- b Madness in Hamlet
- c Comparison of the Characters of Don Quixote and Hamlet: Soulmates?
- Bibliography
- Index.