Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Abbreviations xi
5. Mise en Scène xv
6. Introduction: Doing Theater Justice 1
7. PART I. Back to the Medieval Future
8. 1. Behind the Seen: All Hell Breaks Loose 29
9. 2. The Final Run-Through 47
10. 3. Fear of Imminence and Virtual Ethics: Staging Rape in the Middle Ages 67
11. 4. Killing Himself by Accident: Of Broken Frames, Mimetic Blindness, and a Dance of Death 89
12. Entr’Acte: This Fallacy Which Is Not One 109
13. PART II. The Theater and Its Trouble
14. 5. The Theatrical Contract 123
15. 6. In Flagrante Theatro 143
16. 7. Theater Nullification 163
17. Talk-Back: Black Box and Idiot Box 185
18. Appendix: Original Documents in French and Latin 197
19. Notes 209
20. Works Cited 249
21. Index 275