Law as Performance Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe
by Stone Peters, JulieFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2022-10-12
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
Julie Stone Peters, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Julie Stone Peters (B.A. Yale, Ph.D. Princeton, J.D. Columbia) is the H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Co-Chair of Columbia's Theatre and Performance PhD Program, and founder of the Columbia College Human Rights Program. She has taught at
Harvard and Stanford, and been the recipient of Guggenheim, NEH, Fulbright, ACLS, Humboldt, and other fellowships. Her publications include Theatre of the Book: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe 1480-1880 (Oxford University Press, 2000, winner of the Harry Levin and Beatrice White prizes), and
numerous other studies of drama, performance, film, media, and the cultural history of law.
Table of 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
Epilogue
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