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Theatre and Law

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The first comprehensive account of the complex relations between legal process and performances. Through ten major principles of performance within law, it establishes how law itself is a performative mode of practice and reflects upon the co-dependence of law, performance and politics in celebrated works of theatre.

Artist / Author Alan Read
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-1137469557
Reference P3014
Date 2016
Type Publication

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