TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peters,Julie Stone
TI  - Law as performance: theatricality, spectatorship, and the making of law in ancient, medieval, and early modern Europe 
T2  - Law and literature
SN  - 9780192898494 (hardback)
AV  - KJ 147 P482l 2022
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Law
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Derecho
KW  - Europa
KW  - Historia
KW  - Forensic oratory
KW  - Oratoria forense
KW  - Performance art
KW  - Performance (Arte)
KW  - Language
KW  - Law and literature
KW  - Derecho y literatura
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -