by Christina G. Waldman
Review of María José Falcón y Tella, The Law in Cervantes and Shak
espeare, translated by Dierdre B. Jerry (Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2021), first published in Spanish as El Derecho en Cervantes y Shakespeare (Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2021)
by Christina G. Waldman
Revised November 4, 2024
“In the Spanish-speaking world, María José Falcón y Tella stands out among those authors who have studied the theme of law and literature in its diverse modalities,” writes Carla Forelli, Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Bologna, in her foreword to Falcón y Tella’s The Law in Cervantes and Shakespeare (xiii). She goes on in her foreword to praise Falcón y Tella’s prior book, Derecho y Literature (Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2015; translated as Law and Literature (Leiden: Brill, 2016) as “one of the greatest contemporary European studies on law and literature” (xiii), thus recognizing Falcón y Tella as an acknowledged authority on law and literature. Read more…>
