Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction: The Routes to Cruelty
The Theatre and its Double
Preface: Theatre and Culture
The Theatre and the Plague
Staging and Metaphysics
The Alchemical Theatre
On the Balinese Theatre
Theatre in the East and Theatre in the West
No More Masterpieces
Theatre and Cruelty
The Theatre of Cruelty (First Manifesto)
Letters Concerning Cruelty
Letters Concerning Language
The Theatre of Cruelty (Second Manifesto)
An Affective Athleticism
Two Notes
i.The Marx Brothers
ii.Autour d’une mère
Seraphim’s Theatre
Notes, interviews, and correspondence
Appendix: The Dossier of The Theatre and its Double
Notes
Index

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This new translation of Antonin Artaud’s canonical text conveys Artaud’s words and ambitions in an appealing and contemporary English.

About the Author

Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) (author) was a French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor and theatre director, widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theatre and the European avant-garde.

Mark Taylor-Batty (translator) is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Leeds, UK. His previous publications include The Theatre of Harold Pinter (Bloomsbury, 2014), About Pinter: The Playwright and the Work (2005), Roger Blin: Collaborations and Methodologies (2007) and, co-authored with his wife Juliette Taylor-Batty, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (2009).