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This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period, based on research in the fields of literary studies, art history, theatre studies, cultural history and the study of emotions. The volume's two-fold approach to the hurt body, defining 'hurt' from the perspectives of both victim and beholder - as well as their combined creation of a gaze - is unique. It establishes a double perspective about the riddle of 'cruel' viewing by tracking the shifting cultural meanings of victims' bodies, and confronting them to the values of audiences, religious and popular institutional settings and practices of punishment. It encompasses both the victim's presence as an image or performed event of pain and the conundrum of the look - the transmitted 'pain' experienced by the watching audience.

Acting --- Pain in literature --- Pain in art --- Emotions --- Art dramatique --- Douleur dans la littérature --- Douleur dans l'art --- Psychological aspects --- Research --- Aspect psychologique --- Recherche --- Pain in the performing arts. --- Performing arts --- Pain in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- History --- History and criticism --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- History and criticism. --- History of civilization --- History of Europe --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Douleur dans la littérature --- Research. --- Pain in the performing arts --- Philosophical anthropology --- Art --- 1600-1799 --- Dutch stock trade. --- French tragedy. --- Irish Rebellion. --- Palermo's executions. --- colonial massacres. --- dramatic cruelty. --- early modern colonial body. --- epicurean tastes. --- female gaze. --- hurt(ful) body. --- infanticide. --- masochism. --- painful excitements. --- religious massacres. --- suffering. --- theatrical torture. --- wounding realities.