 | The Medieval Theater of Cruelty: Rhetoric, Memory, Violence 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... Jody Enders is Professor of French and Dramatic Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara and editor of Theatre Survey . She is the author of Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama , winner of the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, and Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends . |
