Staging Pain, 15801800

by JamesRobertAllard (Author), Mathew R . Martin (Author), Matthew R . Martin (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $152.65

  Discusses two crucial moments in the histories of pain, trauma, and their staging in British Theater: the establishment of secular and professional theater in London in the 1580s, and the dissatisfaction with theatrical modes of public punishment alongside the increasing efficacy of staging extravagant spectacles at the end of the 18th century.