Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)

M. Carlson

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Publication Date: September 27th, 2011

Publisher:

Palgrave MacMillan

ISBN:

9781349288274

Pages:

227

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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.

About the Author

Marla Carlson is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Georgia, USA

Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)

Description

About the Author

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