Theatre and Law

Theatre and Law

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Summary

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.

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Theatre and Law by Alan Read

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.
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.
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ISBN 13 9781137469557
ISBN 10 1137469552
Title Theatre and Law
Author Alan Read
Series Theatre And
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2015-11-03
Number of pages 98
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