Introduction: Theatre History in the New Millennium 1000
Jody Enders Professor of French and Dramatic Art a1
a1 University of California, Santa Barbara
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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.
Footnotes1000 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.
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