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Introduction: Theatre History in the New Millennium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2004

Jody Enders
Jody Enders
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Extract

Dialogue. It comes from the Greek, and covers a host of meanings from conversation, to philosophy, to speaking articulately, to lecturing, to dealing with others. It can be as contentious as it is conciliatory and as hostile as it is friendly. It can be consensus-building or polarizing, controversial or anodyne. But, at its worst and at its best, it is engagement; and, throughout its worldwide history, it has consistently done a glorious thing. It produces knowledge—or, at a minimum, it puts on display the fact that knowledge is out there.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , November 2004 , pp. 173 - 175
Copyright
© 2004 The American Society for Theatre Research, Inc.

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Footnotes

Professor of French and Dramatic Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Jody Enders has published three books on the theory, practice, and reception of medieval drama: Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama (Cornell, 1992), The Medieval Theater of Cruelty: Rhetoric, Memory, Violence (Cornell, 1999), and Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends (Chicago, 2002), the winner of the Barnard Hewitt Award.