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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

Keywords

actor affect Bertolt Brecht Carey Young common law courtroom Franz Kafka Guantanamo How to do Things With Words human rights justice lawyer Lynne McCarthy testimony theatricality

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