Performing bodies in pain
Subtitle: medieval and post-modern martyrs, mystics, and artists
By: Marla Carlson.
Series: Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780230103863
Subjects: Pain in the theater; Violence in the theater; Theater -- United States -- History -- 21st century; Performance art; Theater -- France -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500; French drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism; Passion-plays -- History and criticism
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Feeling torture; title: Imagining death; title: Enduring ecstasy; title: Whipping up community; title: Containing chaos; title: Conclusion.