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Article: The Medieval Theater of Cruelty: Rhetoric, Memory, Violence.(Review)
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- Comparative Drama
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- March 22, 2000
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Jody Enders. The Medieval Theater of Cruelty: Rhetoric, Memory, Violence. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii + 268. $45.00.
Jody Enders wisely begins her argument that the histories of torture, law, rhetoric, theater, and aesthetics are interconnected by acknowledging and answering potential criticisms of her unconventional (at least within medieval theater circles) approach to and reading of her subject. In her Introduction, she gently chastises medievalists for their tendency to emphasize the alterity of the Middle Ages and post-modern theorists for their tendency to believe that our twentieth-century aesthetic of violence is somehow new or ...
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