Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Avant-Gardes in Performance (AGP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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The Theatre and Its Double
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Elizabethan Social History: Doubles of the Theatre
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The Sources of Dramatic Cruelty
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The Theatre of Cruelty in Performance
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Book Title: The Early Modern Theatre of Cruelty and its Doubles
Book Subtitle: Artaud and Influence
Authors: Amanda Di Ponio
Series Title: Avant-Gardes in Performance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92249-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92248-5Published: 10 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06393-1Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92249-2Published: 21 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-3092
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3106
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 270
Topics: Theatre History, Performing Arts, National/Regional Theatre and Performance, Drama