Performing Law: Actors, Affects, Spaces

doi:10.1017/9781009674195

The words 'all rise' announce the appearance of the judge in the thespian space of the courtroom and trigger the beginning of that play we call a trial. The symbolically staged enactment of conflict in the form of litigation is exemplary of legal action, its liturgical and real effects. It establishes the roles and discourses, hierarchy and deference, atmospheres and affects that are to be taken up in the more general social stage of public life. Leading international scholars drawn from performance studies, theatre history, aesthetics, dance, film, history, and law provide critical analyses of the sites, dramas and stage directions to be found in the orchestration of the tragedies and comedies acted out in multiple forums of contemporary legality. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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Performing Law
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Law in Context - Series page
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Performing Law - Title page
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Actors, Affects, Spaces
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Copyright page
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Contents
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Figures
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Contributors
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Chapter 1 - Introduction
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- By Peter Goodrich, Anna Jayne Kimmel
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Part I - Forensis and Forensic Actors
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Chapter 2 - Law, Rhetoric and Fictionality in ‘the Age of Theatre’
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A Literary Response to Law as Performance
- By Lorna Hutson
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Chapter 3 - The Poetics of Hypokrisis in Early Modern Judicial Theatre
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- By Subha Mukherji
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Chapter 4 - The Outdoor Stages of Common Law
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- By Piyel Haldar
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Chapter 5 - Law – Text – Performance
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- By Derek Miller
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Part II - Affectations
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Chapter 6 - On Dialogue: Or Legal Performance in the Affective Space
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- By Jesús R. Velasco
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Chapter 7 - Performing for the Audience
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- By Simon Stern
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Chapter 8 - Desiring Children
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Vulnerability and the Sex Offender
- By Jisha Menon
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Part III - Transgressions
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Chapter 9 - The Comediography of Law
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- By Peter Goodrich
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Chapter 10 - The Force of Laughter and a Minor Jurisprudence of Refusal
pp 213-238
A Question of Silence (Marleen Gorris, 1982)
- By Başak Ertür
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Chapter 11 - Oath Taking and Legal Performance
pp 239-257
- By Marco Wan
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Chapter 12 - “Naked Athena” and Classical Lines
pp 258-279
Wayward Aesthetics of the Exposed Body
- By Anna Jayne Kimmel
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Appendix 1
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Appendix 2
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Chapter 13 - Coda / Cauda / Cado
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What I Learned from Performing Law; or, Thereby Hangs a Tail
- By Julie Stone Peters
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Index
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