Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Christian Melpomene?
Chapter 1: The Separation of Church and Stage
Chapter 2: The Spectacle of Martyrdom and the Spectacle of the Stage
Chapter 3: “Ex histrionis martyr factus:” Genesius, Acting, and Martyrdom
Chapter 4: Polyeucte, martyr and Corneille’s Sacramental Poetics
Epilogue: Theater and Theology at the Threshold of Modernity
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Christopher Semk is assistant professor of French at Yale University.