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Departing from a refreshing look at the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this book provides a thorough analysis of how both Sarah Kane and Samuel Beckett are indebted to his legacy. In juxtaposing these playwrights, De Vos minutely points out how both in their own way struggle with coming to terms with Artaud. A key concept in Lacanian psychoanalytic theories, desire lies at the root of the Theatre of Cruelty; Kane and Beckett prove that desire and cruelty are inextricably linked to one another, but tha

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Author

Artaud, Antonin; Beckett, Samuel; Kane, Sarah; De Vos, Laurens; Kane, Sarah; Artaud, Antonin; Beckett, Samuel

Publisher

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611470451

Category

performing arts

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Performing Arts

Updated

2026-03-25