KING LEAR TELLING THE LAW

: Shakespeare and the Problems of Normativity

Authors

  • Lorenzo de Carpena Ferreira Corrêa de Barros Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Keywords:

King Lear, William Shakespeare, Law & Literature, Semiotics

Abstract

The present paper proposes a reading of The Tragedy of King Lear in the context of Law and Literature. This is an interdisciplinary article, which brings together three objects of scientific knowledge (literary art, legal theory and philosophy of justice), therefore methodological attention must be redoubled. Thus, the fundamental assumptions of semiotics are followed, so that literary art is treated here as a metalanguage concerning the meaning of law and justice in human experience from King Lear (KRISTEVA, 1969). From the event of the division of the kingdom promoted by Lear, the problems of normativity that stand out in this Shakespearean masterpiece are analyzed, focusing on the figure of the King, as a man and as part of nature, in line with the theorist Barbara Heliodora (1997, 2008).

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Author Biography

Lorenzo de Carpena Ferreira Corrêa de Barros, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Graduado em ciências jurídicas e sociais e mestrando em letras pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Pós-graduando na especialização em direito tributário do Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos Tributários (IBET/RS). Advogado.

Published

2023-08-31

How to Cite

BARROS, L. de C. F. C. de. KING LEAR TELLING THE LAW: : Shakespeare and the Problems of Normativity. Revista do Tribunal Regional Federal da 1ª Região, [S. l.], v. 35, n. 2, p. 312–326, 2023. Disponível em: https://revista.trf1.jus.br/trf1/article/view/489. Acesso em: 5 jul. 2024.