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Law as Performance curtin-university-adoption-titles-collection a decade that marks aTirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be "seen to be done." Law as Performance traces the history of legal performance and spectatorship through the early modern period. Viewing law as the product not merely of edicts or doctrines but of expressive action, it investigates the performances that literally created law: in civic arenas, courtrooms, judges'