Karel Vanhaesebrouck

Tomas Macsotay

Cornelis van der Haven

This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period, based on research in the fields of literary studies, art history, theatre studies, cultural history and the study of emotions. The volume’s two-fold approach to the hurt body, defining ‘hurt’ from the perspectives of both victim and beholder - as well as their combined creation of a gaze - is unique. It establishes a double perspective about the riddle of ‘cruel’ viewing by tracking the shifting cultural meanings of victims’ bodies and confronting them with the values of audiences, religious and popular institutional settings and practices of punishment. It encompasses both the victim’s presence as an image or performed event of pain and the conundrum of the look – the transmitted ‘pain’ experienced by the watching audience.

Performing and beholding pain, 1600–1800

The hurt(ful) body

Thomas Crombez

Luk Van den Dries

Jelle Koopmans

Frank J. Peeters

Overzicht van de Westerse theatergeschiedenis met aandacht voor de sociale betekenis en de maatschappelijke status van het theater, afgesloten met een bespreking van een aantal Vlaamse theatermakers.

een westerse geschiedenis

Theater

Karel Vanhaesebrouck

Books

Your next favorite book is out there