In "Cicero's Use of Judicial Theater," Jon Hall examines Cicero's
use of showmanship in the Roman courts, looking in particular at
the nonverbal devices that he employs during his speeches as he
attempts to manipulate opinion. Cicero's speeches in the law-courts
often incorporate theatrical devices including the use of family
relatives as props during emotional appeals, exploitation of tears
and supplication, and the wearing of specially dirtied attire by
defendants during a trial, all of which contrast strikingly with
the practices of the modem advocate. Hall investigates how Cicero
successfully deployed these techniques and why they played such a
prominent part in the Roman courts. These "judicial theatrics" are
rarely discussed by the ancient rhetorical handbooks, and "Cicero's
Use of Judicial Theater" argues that their successful use by Roman
orators derives largely from the inherent theatricality of
aristocratic life in ancient Rome--most of the devices deployed in
the courts appear elsewhere in the social and political activities
of the elite.
While "Cicero's Use of Judicial Theater" will be of interest
primarily to professional scholars and students studying the
speeches of Cicero, its wider analyses, both of Roman cultural
customs and the idiosyncratic practices of the courts, will prove
relevant also to social historians, as well as historians of legal
procedure.
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