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New York, Grove Press, 1958.
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| Description |
159pBlack Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
A collection of manifestos originally published in 1938, The Theater and Its Double is the fullest statement of the ideas of Antonin Artaud. "We cannot go on prostituting the idea of the theater, the only value of which is in its excruciating, magical relation to reality and danger," he wrote. He fought vigorously against an encroaching conventionalis which he found was anathema to the very concept of theater. He sought to use theater to transcend writing, "to break through the language in order to touch life."
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| Contents |
A note on the translation
Preface: The theatre and culture
The theatre and the plague
Metaphysics and mise en scene
The alchemical theatre
On the Balinese theatre
Oriental and occidental theatre
No more masterpieces
The theatre and cruelty
The theatre of cruelty(First manifesto)
Letters on cruelty
Letters on language
The theatre of cruelty(Second manifesto)
An affective athleticism
Tow notes
Maurice Saillet: In memoriam Antonin Artaud
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| Standard Number |
9780802150301 Pb.
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