1st Edition
Perversion, Pedagogy and the Comic A Survey of the Concept of Theatre in the Christian Middle Ages
Concept, Problem and Movement: A General Introduction
PART 1
Prelude to a Problem
1. “The Artist is Branded While the Art is Extolled”: The Differential Reality of Persona and the Question of Theatre in Ancient Rome
PART 2
The Problem Made Possible
2. “How Vast the Spectacle that Day, and How Wide!” The Treatment of Theatre in Early Christianity
3. “You Touched Me, and I am Set on Fire to Attain the Peace Which is Yours”: Variations on Certain Theatrical Readings of St. Augustine
4. “For in this Breakthrough it is Bestowed upon Me That I and God are One”: The Worldlessness of Meister Eckhart and the Fate of Theatrum Mundus
PART 3
The Actualization of the Problem
5. “The Wise Man Laughs Only with Fear and Trembling”: Representation, Repetition and the Materialist Threshold of Medieval Imagination
Conclusion: To Get Past the Critic…
Biography
Soumick De is currently a post doctoral fellow at Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), India where he is working on the concept of the tragic and its relevance in the political imagination of modernity.
