Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions
    Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions
    Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions
    Ebook289 pages7 hours

    Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions

    By Jody Enders

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Over fifty years ago, it became unfashionable—even forbidden—for students of literature to talk about an author’s intentions for a given work. In Murder by Accident, Jody Enders boldly resurrects the long-disgraced concept of intentionality, especially as it relates to the theater.

    Drawing on four fascinating medieval events in which a theatrical performance precipitated deadly consequences, Enders contends that the marginalization of intention in critical discourse is a mirror for the marginalization—and misunderstanding—of theater. Murder by Accident revisits the legal, moral, ethical, and aesthetic limits of the living arts of the past, pairing them with examples from the present, whether they be reality television, snuff films, the “accidental” live broadcast of a suicide on a Los Angeles freeway, or an actor who jokingly fired a stage revolver at his temple, causing his eventual death. This book will force scholars and students to rethink their assumptions about theory, intention, and performance, both past and present.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateAug 1, 2009
    ISBN9780226207858
    Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions

    Related to Murder by Accident

    Related ebooks

    Literary Criticism For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Three Odysseys

      Jan 2, 2018

      Odysseys come in all shapes and forms, from epic to personal.  Three recent odysseys range in time and theme from ancient to dystopian.  Daniel Mendelsohn’s An Odyssey launches from Homer’s epic, 2017 National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Un

      6 min read

    • Article

      Lords Of Misrule

      Dec 3, 2020

      Christmas, in past times, included adult entertainment and also the celebration of dark themes such as death and retribution. The death of the old year, and the turning point of the Winter Solstice, was a time to affirm the contrast of light and dark

      8 min read

    • Article

      Nuin

      Aug 27, 2021

      Nuin
      2 min read

    • Article

      What The Thunder Said

      Sep 14, 2022

      ON Margate Sands./I can connect/ Nothing with nothing.’ Thomas Stearns (T. S.) Eliot crafted these short lines that form a part of his fractured epic The Waste Land in October 1921, as he sat in the inauspicious Nayland Rock Shelter (granted Grade II

      4 min read

    • Article

      Breaking the Spell

      May 9, 2021

      Breaking the Spell
      8 min read

    • Article

      ‘Sybaritic' elites

      Aug 4, 2023

      ‘Sybaritic' elites
      8 min read

    • Article

      Endgame

      Jun 24, 2022

      Endgame
      3 min read

    • Article

      In Alamo Redesign, Renewed Battles Over Who Gets To Tell Stories Of Texas

      Oct 23, 2018

      It’s not often that a community gets the chance to redefine its symbols and decide who and what’s important. San Antonians are reflecting on a newly approved plan for its iconic site.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Taste of Prison

      Jun 1, 2022

      Taste of Prison
      11 min read

    • Article

      Small Is Beautiful

      Sep 25, 2019

      Small Is Beautiful
      10 min read

    • Article

      Eating Oatmeal with Alasdair Gray

      Jan 1, 2020

      Alasdair Gray as a young man. Photo provided by the author in 2016.  The Scottish writer Alasdair Gray died on December 29th, at the age of eighty-five, four years after a fall from the outside steps of his house left him with a spinal injury that co

      5 min read

    • Article

      Rise Up!

      Mar 3, 2020

      Rise Up!
      13 min read

    • Article

      ‘Deeper Than A Sexual Betrayal’: What Happens If Your Partner Doesn’t Like Your Writing?

      May 27, 2023

      There are no decapitations or dead girls in Nicole Holofcener’s sublime new horror film. The incident at the center of the writer-director’s latest movie is, to a certain set anyway, far more alarming. Beth, a happily married writer (Julia Louis-Drey

      7 min read

    • Article

      In Search Of Genius

      Jun 10, 2021

      Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson Bloomsbury, 512 pages, £25 DH Lawrence has proven to be an endlessly fascinating subject for biographers. There is his working-class upbringing as the son of a collier; the scholarships he won

      1 min read

    • Article

      On Bach

      Dec 1, 2022

      On Bach
      13 min read

    • Article

      'Slings & Arrows' Made Shakespeare Must-see TV. The Prequel Sounds Just As Delightful

      Nov 6, 2019

      If there's no business like show business, and there is no playwright like Shakespeare, then it stands to reason - and is, in fact, a fact - that there's no series like "Slings & Arrows," a gorgeous Canadian import from the first decade of this centu

      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Murder by Accident

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Murder by Accident - Jody Enders

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1