Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
Description
This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.
Keywords
THEATER_UNITED STATES_HISTORYPERFORMANCE ARTTHEATER_FRANCEFRENCH DRAMA_HISTORY AND CRITICISMPASSION-PLAYS
2011Book
Author(s)Marla Carlson
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780230103863
LanguageEnglish
