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(1994) Twentieth-century European drama, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
"A true theatrical work disturbs the senses in repose, liberates the repressed unconscious, foments a virtual revolt … and imposes both a heroic and difficult attitude on the assembled collectivity."1 So wrote Antonin Artaud in 1933. The father of the revolutionary theatre of cruelty, Artaud wanted to do away with the traditional theatre, whose nuclear elements were words, well-made plots, psychologically oriented and rationally understandable characters.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23073-0_6
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Knapp, B. L. (1994)., Antonin Artaud and the theatre of cruelty, in B. Docherty (ed.), Twentieth-century European drama, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 78-91.
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