Theatre & Law offers 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.

An accessible guide to ten ways in which theatre and law relate

Part of the bestselling Theatre & series

Autorentext
Alan Read is Professor of Theatre at Kings College London, UK.

Inhalt

Part I.- Within the Law: Ten Rules of Engagement.- Part II.- Before the Law: The Life and Death of Homo Juridicus.- Part III.- Beyond the Law: Extraordinary Rendition.- Further Reading.