Performing Law: Actors, Affects, Spaces

Author: Peter Goodrich; Anna Jayne Kimmel; Meyler Bernadette Kimmel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009674201

Published In: May 2026
Format: Hardback
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Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781009674249

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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.

1. Introduction

Peter Goodrich and Anna Kimmel

Part I. Forensis and Forensic Actors:

2. Law, rhetoric and fictionality in 'the age of theatre': a literary response to law as performance

Lorna Hutson

3. The poetics of hypokrisis in the early modern judicial theatre

Subha Mukherji

4. The outdoor stages of common law

Piyel Haldar

5. Law-text-performance

Derek Miller

Part II. Affectations: