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Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe (eBook)


ISBN13: 9780192653598
Published: April 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
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Tirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done, but "seen to be done." This volume traces the history of legal performance and spectatorship through the early modern period. Viewing law as the product not merely of edicts or doctrines but of expressive action, it investigates the performances that literally created law: in civic arenas, courtrooms, and judges' chambers; on scaffolds and in the streets. It examines the legal codes, learned treatises, trial reports, lawyers' manuals, execution narratives, rhetoric books, images (and more) that confronted these performances, praising their virtues or denouncing their evils. In so doing, it recovers a long, rich, and largely overlooked tradition of jurisprudential thought about law as a performance practice.

This tradition not only generated an elaborate poetics and politics of legal performance. It provided western jurisprudence with a set of constitutive norms that shaped the very identity of law. That identity emerged, in part, through the opposition between law and theatre. Where law stood for cool deliberation, by-the-book rules, and sovereign discipline, theatre stood for deceptive artifice, entertainment, histrionics, melodrama. And yet legal performance, even at its most theatrical, also appeared fundamental to law's realization—a central mechanism for shaping legal subjects, key to persuasion, essential to deterrence, indispensable to law's power—as it does still today.

Subjects:
Legal History, eBooks
Contents:
Introduction
1:Theatre, Theatrocracy, and the Politics of Pathos in the Athenian Lawcourt
2:The Roman Advocate as Actor: Actio, Pronuntiatio, Prosopopoeia, and Persuasive Empathy in Cicero and Quintilian
3:Courtroom Oratory, Forensic Delivery, and the Wayward Body in Medieval Rhetorical Theory
4:Irreverent Performances, Heterodox Subjects, and the Unscripted Crowd from the Medieval Courtroom to the Stocks and Scaffold
5:Performing Law in the Age of Theatre (c.
1500-1650)
6:Legal Performance Education in Early Modern England: Learning to Act Like a Lawyer
Epilogue

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