Theatre and Law

ISBN-13: 9781137469557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 98 str.

London) Alan Read (King's College London

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Alan Read is Professor of Theatre at Kings College London, UK. He was the founding consultant editor of the journal Performance Research and is the author of Theatre & Everyday Life: An Ethics of Performance and Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement: The Last Human Venue, amongst numerous other publications.