The Theater and Its Double

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Grove Press, 1958 - 159 páginas
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 conventionalism he found 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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A Note on the Translation
4
The Theater and Culture
5
The Theater and the Plague
13
Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene
31
The Alchemical Theater
46
On the Balinese Theater
51
Oriental and Occidental Theater
66
No More Masterpieces
72
The Theater of Cruelty First Manifesto
87
Letters on Cruelty
99
Letters on Language
103
The Theater of Cruelty Second Manifesto
120
An Affective Athleticism
131
Two Notes
140
In Memoriam Antonin Artaud
145
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Sobre el autor (1958)

An early associate of the surrealists, Antonin Artaud broke with them to form the "theater of cruelty" in 1932. His goal, set forth in his long essay The Theater and Its Double (1938), was to replace the contemporary theater, with its emphasis on psychology, by a theater of myth that would reintroduce the sacred into modern life. Experiments with drugs, coupled with a long history of psychiatric trouble, led to Artaud's commitment to a mental hospital for nine years. He remains a contemporary heir to the nineteenth-century antiestablishment poets and an inspiration to contemporary theoreticians of the theater.

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