The Medieval Theater of Cruelty

出版者:Cornell University Press

作者:Jody Enders

页数:288

出版时间:2002-04

价格:USD 25.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780801487835

图书标签:Medieval

Why did medieval dramatists include so many scenes of torture in 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. According to Enders, theories of rhetoric and law of the time reveal 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 in order to fabricate truth.