Power and Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Theater
Contributions by Jutta Eming Contributions by Stefan Engels Contributions by Heidy Greco-Kaufmann Contributions by Aneta Bialecka Contributions by Klaus Ridder Contributions by Beatrice von Lüpke Contributions by Rebekka Nöcker Contributions by Judith Pfeiffer Contributions by Nicole Lorenz Contributions by Regina Toepfer Edited by Cora Dietl Edited by Christoph Schanze Edited by Glenn Ehrstine
Hardback (Published)
(September 2014)
ISBN: 9783847103165
6.3 x 9.25 inches
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Theater historians were discussing the particular type of violence displayed by medieval religious plays long before cultural studies discovered violence as a favored topic. The present volume draws upon recent sociohistorical work on the phenomenon to reconsider past paradigms for the function of violence on the medieval stage (1470-1570), including the concept of compassio. An important key to the understanding of violence in medieval and early modern theater can be found in the relationship between violence, force, and power.
English summary: Theater historians were discussing the particular type of violence displayed by medieval religious plays long before cultural studies discovered violence as a favored topic. The present volume, which gathers selected papers of the first regional colloquium of the ociete Internationale pour l’Etude du Theatre Medieval(SITM) in Germany, draws upon recent sociohistorical work on the phenomenon to reconsider past paradigms for the function of violence on the medieval stage, including the concept of ompassio. The authors argue that an important key to the understanding of violence in medieval and early modern theater can be found in the relationship between iolentia is and otestas (violence, force, and power). The plays normally do not present violence as an isolated feature, but rather as an expression or a means of power. They thereby address the legitimacy of power, both on the page and in performance. The time frame for the plays under discussion (c. 1470-1570) elides the traditional border line between late medieval Catholicism and the Protestant Reformation. The essays clearly reveal that the depiction of violence, while altered in character and function by post-Reformation confessional debates, nonetheless remained a central feature of the new Protestant theater as well. German description: Gewaltdarstellungen im mittelalterlichen Spiel waren schon lange vor dem ‘Cultural Turn’ ein haufig diskutierter Gegenstand der Theatergeschichte; jetzt werden sie neu bewertet. Auf der Grundlage aktueller sozialgeschichtlicher Untersuchungen werden die Parameter der Theatergeschichte im Zeitraum von 1470-1570 hinterfragt. Als ein wichtiger Schlussel zum Verstandnis der Gewalt im alteren Drama wird das Verhaltnis zwischen violentia, vis und potestas, den drei Facetten des Begriffs ‘Gewalt’, konstatiert. Gewalt tritt hier nicht als isoliertes Phanomen auf, sondern eher als ein (Ausdrucks-)Mittel der Macht. So diskutieren Dramentext und Auffuhrung die Legitimitat von Herrschaftsgewalt.
- Contributions by Jutta Eming
- Contributions by Stefan Engels
- Contributions by Heidy Greco-Kaufmann
- Contributions by Aneta Bialecka
- Contributions by Klaus Ridder
- Contributions by Beatrice von Lüpke
- Contributions by Rebekka Nöcker
- Contributions by Judith Pfeiffer
- Contributions by Nicole Lorenz
- Contributions by Regina Toepfer
- Edited by Cora Dietl
- Edited by Christoph Schanze
- Edited by Glenn Ehrstine
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