Description: Medieval Theater of Cruelty : Rhetoric, Memory, Violence, Hardcover by Enders, Jody, ISBN 0801433347, ISBN-13 9780801433344, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Why did medieval dramatists weave so many scenes of torture into their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle Ages. Theories of rhetoric and law of the time reveal, she points out, that the ideology of torture was a widely accepted means for exploiting such essential elements of the stage and stagecraft as dramatic verisimilitude, pity, fear, and catharsis to fabricate truth.
Analyzing the consequences of torture for the history of aesthetics in general and of drama in particular, Enders shows that if the violence embedded in the history of rhetoric is acknowledged, we are better able to understand not only the enduring "theater of cruelty" identified by theorists from Isidore of Seville to Antonin Artaud, but also the continuing modern devotion to the spectacle of pain.
Why did medieval dramatists weave so many scenes of torture into their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle Ages. Theories of rhetoric and law of the time reveal, she points out, that the ideology of torture was a widely accepted means for exploiting such essential elements of the stage and stagecraft as dramatic verisimilitude, pity, fear, and catharsis to fabricate truth. Analyzing the consequences of torture for the history of aesthetics in general and of drama in particular, Enders shows that if the violence embedded in the history of rhetoric is acknowledged, we are better able to understand not only the enduring "theater of cruelty" identified by theorists from Isidore of Seville to Antonin Artaud, but also the continuing modern devotion to the spectacle of pain.
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Book Title: Medieval Theater of Cruelty : Rhetoric, Memory, Violence
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 1998
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Medieval, Drama, Theater / History & Criticism, Subjects & Themes / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Jody Enders
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
