Since its first publication in 1938, The Theater and Its Double
by the French artist and philosopher Antonin Artaud has continued to
provoke, inspire, enrage, enliven, challenge, and goad any number of
theatrical debates in its call for a "Theater of Cruelty." A trio of
theatrical manifestos, the book is an aggressive attack on many of the
most treasured beliefs of both theater and Western culture. According
to Artaud, the theater's "double" is similar to its Jungian "shadow,"
the unacknowledged, unconscious element that completes it but is in
many ways its opposite.
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Shakespeare’s Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.
A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.
Includes
attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actors and playwrights,
letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts
from legislation.
Demonstrates just how heated debates about the theater became in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
A
general introduction and short prefaces to each piece situate the
writers and debates in the literary, social, political and religious
history of the time.
Brings together in one volume texts that would otherwise be hard to locate.
Student-friendly - uses modern spelling and includes vocabulary glosses and annotation.
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