Peters, Julie Stone,  1958- <br/><br/>
Law as performance :  theatricality, spectatorship, and the making of law in ancient, medieval, and early modern Europe / 
Julie Stone Peters. 
 - First edition. 
 - xiv, 350 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
 - Law and literature .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- Theatre, Theatrocracy, and the Politics of Pathos in the Athenian Lawcourt -- The Roman Advocate as Actor : Actio, Pronuntiatio, Prosopopoeia, and Persuasive Empathy in Cicero and Quintilian -- Courtroom Oratory, Forensic Delivery, and the Wayward Body in Medieval Rhetorical Theory -- Irreverent Performances, Heterodox Subjects, and the Unscripted Crowd from the Medieval Courtroom to the Stocks and Scaffold -- Performing Law in the Age of Theatre (c. 1500-1650) -- Legal Performance Education in Early Modern England -- Epilogue. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780192898494 0192898493 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2021949555 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Law--History.--Europe<br/>Forensic oratory--History.--Europe<br/>Performance art--History.--Europe<br/>Law--Language--History.--Europe<br/>Law and literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KJ147  / P482l 2022