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Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe
Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition of jurisprudential thought about law as a form of theatre, a tradition that ancient, medieval, early modern, and later theorists transmitted across centuries, continually elaborating and reworking it to suit changing conditions.
| Author(s) | By Julie Stone Peters (H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 368 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 14 Apr 2022 |
| Availability | Available |
Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition of jurisprudential thought about law as a form of theatre, a tradition that ancient, medieval, early modern, and later theorists transmitted across centuries, continually elaborating and reworking it to suit changing conditions.
Introduction 1: Theatre, Theatrocracy, and the Politics of Pathos in the Athenian Lawcourt 2: The Roman Advocate as Actor: Actio, Pronuntiatio, Prosopopoeia, and Persuasive Empathy in Cicero and Quintilian 3: Courtroom Oratory, Forensic Delivery, and t
Julie Stone Peters (B.A. Yale, Ph.D. Princeton, J.D. Columbia) is the H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Co-Chair of Columbia's Theatre and Performance PhD Program. She has taught at Harvard, Sta
