Legal stamps from literature

Abstract

Law is a recurrent issue in the history of Literature. The pages that follow —just a few shallow brush-strokes, as announced in the title-— make a fast tour through some literary episodes that are particularly striking to the eyes of a jurist. They show some literary moments that express the reciprocal relationship between Law and Literature —as Niceto Alcala-Zamora Castillo would say— and provide a writer’s literary view over legal issues. This selection of literary moments ranges from William Shakespeare to Miguel Delibes, including William Thackeray, Miguel Espinosa, Ramiro Pinilla, or the Colombian Alvaro Cela Cueto, and some samples of Zarzuela, an Spanish genre of musical play also known as «genero chico» (small type).