Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists

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.

Author: M. Carlson
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/27/2011
Pages: 227
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9781349288274
ISBN10: 1349288276
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Theater | History & Criticism
- Literary Criticism | Drama
- History | Europe | Medieval

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