Reviews: "The Medieval Theater of Cruelty: Rhetoric, Memory, Violence"

Reviews "The Medieval Theater of Cruelty: Rhetoric, Memory, Violence," written by Jody Enders, noting that she unapologetically declares her intention to discuss modern psychoanalytic and phenomenological readings of torture and of theater alongside medieval rhetoricla representations of the same (Cornell University Press, 1999). States that according to Enders, only by recognizing continuities between medieval and modern theaters of cruelty can people effect social change. Contends that Enders presents her argument in such a careful manner that even the most conservative reader will find it persuasive.