The Early Modern Theatre of Cruelty and its Doubles
Artaud and Influence
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This book examines the influence of the early modern period on Antonin Artaud’s seminal work The Theatre and Its Double, arguing that Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and their early modern context are an integral part of the Theatre of Cruelty and essential to its very understanding. The chapters draw links between the early modern theatrical obsession with plague and regeneration, and how it is mirrored in Artaud’s concept of cruelty in the theatre. As a discussion of the influence of Shakespeare and his contemporaries on Artaud, and the reciprocal influence of Artaud on contemporary interpretations of early modern drama, this book is an original addition to both the fields of early modern theatre studies and modern drama.
This book examines the influence of the early modern period on Antonin Artaud’s seminal work The Theatre and Its Double, arguing that Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and their early modern context are an integral part of the Theatre of Cruelty and essential to its very understanding. The chapters draw links between the early modern theatrical obsession with plague and regeneration, and how it is mirrored in Artaud’s concept of cruelty in the theatre. As a discussion of the influence of Shakespeare and his contemporaries on Artaud, and the reciprocal influence of Artaud on contemporary interpretations of early modern drama, this book is an original addition to both the fields of early modern theatre studies and modern drama.
Provides a comprehensive study of the cultural context that helped shape Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty Looks at Artaud's central deployment of the plague as a contagious and dangerous force Examines theatre after Artaud, with the understanding that the early modern context is integral to successful iterations of his theatre
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Amanda Di Ponio
Themen in »The Early Modern Theatre of Cruelty and its Doubles«
Antonin Artaud Elizabethan drama Jacobean drama Early Modern drama Avant-garde theatre Plague Grotesque Sublime Bakhtin Girard Bataille Seneca