KING LEAR TELLING THE LAW
: Shakespeare and the Problems of Normativity
Keywords:
King Lear, William Shakespeare, Law & Literature, SemioticsAbstract
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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