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.
General
| Imprint: |
Cornell University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2002 |
| First published: |
2002 |
| Authors: |
Jody Enders
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
288 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8014-8783-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8014-8783-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780801487835 |
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