num_pages: 304
description: The popularity of today's courtroom media spectaclesfrom televised trials to bestselling fictionreflects a centuries-old Western tradition. In this ground-breaking exploration of the "origins" of medieval drama, Jody Enders redefines the very concept of origins as she deepens our understanding of the relationship between theater and law.
language: English
title: Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama
titlecomplete: Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama (Rhetoric and Society)
ratings_count: 1
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies
publisher: Cornell Univ Pr