Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
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$109.99
Publication Date: September 27th, 2011
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
9780230103863
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.