THE THEATER AND ITS DOUBLE

• Main Author: Artaud, Antonin 1896-1948 (Author)
• Other Authors: Richards, Mary Caroline
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Grove Weidenfeld 1958
• Subjects: Theater
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A collection of manifestos originally published in 1938, in which the French artist and philosopher attacks conventional assumptions about the drama, and calls for the influx of irrational material - based on dreams, religion, and emotion - in order to make the theater vital for modern audiences

Table of Contents:

• The theater and the plague
• Metaphysics and the mise en scene
• The alchemical theater
• On the Balinese theater
• Oriental and pccidental theater
• No more masterpieces
• The theater and the cruelty
• The theater of cruelty ( First manifesto )
• Letters on cruelty
• Letters on language
• The ytheater of cruelty ( second manifesto )
• An affective athleticism
• Two notes