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 ...
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When Antonin Artaud died of cancer in 1948 at the age of fifty-one, he was a marginal figure in the French artistic world. A minor motion-picture actor and founder of two short-lived avant-garde theat...
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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 following...
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Critical Essay by Lawrence R. Schehr
“Artaud's Revolution: Nowhere to Turn,” in Romance Notes, Vol. 33, No. 2, Winter, 1992, pp. 109-17.
In the following essay, Schehr argues that...
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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. 10-1...
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Critical Essay by Thomas Akstens
“Representation and De-realization: Artaud, Genet, and Sartre,” in Antonin Artaud and the Modern Theater, edited by Gene A. Plunka, Fairleigh Dickinson U...
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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. 3...
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Critical Essay by Louis Sass
“‘The Catastrophes of Heaven’: Modernism, Primitivism, and the Madness of Antonin Artaud,” in Modernism / Modernity, Vol. 3, No. 2, May, 1996, ...
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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.
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Critical Essay by David Sterritt
“Kerouac, Artaud, and the Baroque Period of the Three Stooges,” in Mosaic, Vol. 31, No. 4, December, 1998, pp. 83-98.
In the following essay, Sterritt ar...
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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, arguing ...
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Critical Essay by George E. Wellwarth
“Antonin Artaud: The Prophet of the Avant-Garde Theater,” in The Theater of Protest and Paradox: Developments in the Avant-Garde Drama, New York Uni...
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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 conce...
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Critical Essay by Mary Ann Caws
“Artaud's Myth of Motion,” in The French Review, Vol. 41, No. 4, February, 1968, pp. 532-38.
In the following essay, Caws describes the illness whi...
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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.
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Critical Essay by Maurice M. Labelle
“Artaud's Use of Language, Sound, and Tone,” in Modern Drama, Vol. 15, No. 4, March, 1973, pp. 383-90.
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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 Critic...
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Critical Essay by Jane Goodall
“Artaud's Revision of Shelley's The Cenci: The Text and its Double,” in Comparative Drama, Vol. 21, No. 2, Summer, 1987, pp. 115-26.
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Antonin Artaud
Antonin (Marie Joseph) Artaud
