Contents

• Introduction: doing theater justice
• Back to the medieval future
• Behind the seen: all hell breaks loose
• The final run-through
• Fear of imminence and virtual ethics: staging rape in the Middle Ages
• Killing himself by accident: of broken frames, mimetic blindness, and a dance of death
• Entr’acte: this fallacy which is not one
• The theater and its trouble
• The theatrical contract
• In flagrante theatro
• Theater nullification
• Talk- back: black box and idiot box
• Appendix: original documents in French and Latin