Description: The Medieval Theater of Cruelty Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Rhetoric, Memory, Violence Author(s): Jody Enders Format: Paperback Publisher: Cornell University Press, United States Imprint: Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 9780801487835, 978-0801487835 Synopsis 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: The Medieval Theater of Cruelty
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2002
Subject: History
Item Height: 235 mm
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Medieval Theater of Cruelty: Rhetoric, Memory, Violence
Type: Textbook
Author: Jody Enders
Item Width: 155 mm
Format: Paperback
