Theatre and Law

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.

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.