1. Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966), 126. This research has been made possible by generous funding from the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of California Regents Humanities Fellowship, and University of California-Santa Barbara’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and Academic Senate. Earlier versions of this essay were presented in seminars at Northwestern University, Yale University, the University of Michigan, Performance Studies International, and the American Society for Theatre Research. For their consultation and responses to the work, I would particularly like to thank Kwame Braun, Catherine Burns, Keith Breckenridge, Leo Cabranes-Grant, James Campbell, David William Cohen, Michael Levine, Stephan Miescher, Joseph Roach, Diana Taylor, Richard Wilson, and William B. Worthen, as well as the editors and three anonymous readers from Theatre Journal. I am also grateful for Bianca Murillo’s diligent research assistance.
2. Jody Enders, Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992), 2.
3. Louis Bickford, “Transitional Justice,” in Dinah L. Shelton (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2004), 1045.
4. See Lawrence Douglas, The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), 38–64.
5. Stephen Landsman, “Those Who Remember the Past May Not Be Condemned to Repeat It,” Michigan Law Review, 100:6 (2002): 1571.