Antonin Artaud Summary

Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) was one of the 20th century's most important theoreticians of the drama. He developed the theory of the Theater of Cruelty, which has influenced playwrights from Beckett to ... Read more

Critical Essay by Wallace Fowlie “The New French Theatre: Artaud, Beckett, Genet, Ionesco,” in The Sewanee Review, Vol. LXVII, No. 4, October-December, 1959, pp. 643-57. In the follo... Read more

Critical Essay by Kathy Foley “Trading Art(s): Artaud, Spies, and Current Indonesian/American Artistic Exchange and Collaboration,” in Modern Drama, Vol. 35, No. 1, March, 1992, pp. 10-... Read more

Critical Essay by Leonard R. Koos “Comic Cruelty: Artaud and Jarry,” in Antonin Artaud and the Modern Theater, edited by Gene A. Plunka, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994, pp. ... Read more

Critical Essay by Z. Bart Thornton “Linguistic Disenchantment and Architectural Solace in DeLillo and Artaud,” in Mosaic, Vol. 30, No. 1, March, 1997, pp. 97-112. In the following es... Read more

Critical Essay by Bettina Knapp “Artaud: A New Type of Magic,” in Yale French Studies, No. 31, 1964, pp. 87-98. In the following essay, Knapp interprets several works of Artaud, argu... Read more

Critical Essay by Naomi Greene “Antonin Artaud: Metaphysical Revolutionary,” in Yale French Studies, No. 39, 1967, pp. 188-97. In the following essay, Greene traces Artaud's c... Read more

Critical Essay by Charles Gattnig Jr. “Artaud and the Participatory Drama of the Now Generation,” in Educational Theater Journal, Vol. 20, No. 29, December, 1968, pp. 485-91. In the ... Read more

Critical Essay by Gilles Deleuze “The Schizophrenic and Language: Surface and Depth in Lewis Carroll and Antonin Artaud,” in Textual Strategies: Perspectives in Post-Structuralist Criti... Read more