Theatre and Law

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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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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.