Giurisprudenza comica

Abstract

The contribution briefly aligns two analysis samples, for the definition of a field of investigation framed by the category of “comic jurisprudence”, in relation to a law considered in the sign of the “tragic”, in Carlo Goldoni and William Shakespeare. For the first - reflecting his experience as a lawyer who becomes “author of comedies” - we start from one of the autobiographical “tables” that open the Pasquali edition, the basis of the future autobiography, as a key to entry; for the second we consider some works that invest the question of the law precisely in a “comic” perspective, through a happy ending that passes through a theatrical use of jurisprudence.