The Early Modern Theatre of Cruelty and its Doubles: Artaud and Influence

By Amanda Di Ponio

1. Introduction.2. Interpreting Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty Foundations: Th??tre Alfred Jarry - Three Influential Events - Elizabethan Dramatic Conventions - Cruelty in the Theatre.3. Theatre and Plague: The Doubly Potent Spectacles of Early Modern Culture The Marseilles Plague - Physiological and Psychological Symptoms of Plague - Plague in Early Modern England - The Plague-Theatre - Filth and Infection - Theatre, Contagion, and Ritual.4. Bear-baiting and the Theatre of Cruelty The Pit and The Theatre - Elizabethan Receptivity - Jacobean Popularity - The Arena of Ambiguity - From Barbarity to Civility.5. Thyestean Savagery: Seneca, the Renaissance, and the Theatre of Cruelty Beyond Recitatio - The Sacrificial Crisis - Contagious Furor and Insatiability - Ritual and Bacchic Theatre - William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus directed by Yukio Ninagawa.6. Artaud and the 'Elizabethans': Revenge Tragedy as Inspiration for a Theatre of Cruelty An Emblematic Approach to Stage Language - Arden of Faversham Revisited - The True Theatre - The Revenger's Tragedy - The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi - 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.- 7. Artaud's Les Cenci From Innocence to Effluence - Les Destructeurs - The Theatre of Cruelty Test.8. After Artaud: Peter Brook and The Theatre of Cruelty Season Preparing for a Season of Cruelty - Marat/Sade: On Stage - Marat/Sade: On Screen - Theatre as Cure.9. Conclusion.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319922483
• ISBN13: 9783319922485
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"