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Law as performance : theatricality, spectatorship, and the making of law in ancient, medieval, and early modern Europe
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- Creator
- Julie Stone Peters
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2022
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- xiv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0192898493, 9780191924774, 9780192898494, 0191924776
- OCLC
- on1311598655, on1287075581
- 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