The Plague and its Powers in Artaudian Theatre
Artaud's essay "The Theatre and the Plague" begins with an account of a dream-vision experienced by Saint-Remys, Viceroy. of Sardinia, in 1720: [...] In "assisting" at this apocalyptic spectacle, the dreamer is essentially in the position of any audience member in the Theatr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1990
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Modern drama
Year: 1990, Volume: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 529-542 |
| Further subjects: | B
Girard, René (1923-2015)
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| Summary: | Artaud's essay "The Theatre and the Plague" begins with an account of a dream-vision experienced by Saint-Remys, Viceroy. of Sardinia, in 1720: [...] In "assisting" at this apocalyptic spectacle, the dreamer is essentially in the position of any audience member in the Theatre of Cruelty. He knows the dangers to which he is witness cannot kill him, but he realises too "that the will operates in them to the point of absurdity, to the point of the negation of possibility, to the point of a kind of transmutation of the lie from which you can remake the truth" and this realisation teaches him to act in defiance of destiny and tum the fatal course of events which was set according to his premonition. |
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| ISSN: | 1712-5286 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern drama
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/mdr.1990.0034 DOI: 10.3138/md.33.4.529 |