The Early Modern Theatre of Cruelty and its Doubles

<div><div>1. Introduction.- 2.&nbsp;Interpreting Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty&nbsp;Foundations: Théâtre Alfred Jarry – Three Influential Events – Elizabethan Dramatic Conventions – Cruelty in the Theatre.- 3.&nbsp;Theatre and Plague: The Doubly Potent Spectacles of Early Modern Culture&nbsp;The Marseilles Plague – Physiological and Psychological Symptoms of Plague – Plague in Early Modern England – The Plague-Theatre – Filth and Infection – Theatre, Contagion, and Ritual.- 4.&nbsp;Bear-baiting and the Theatre of Cruelty&nbsp;The Pit and The Theatre – Elizabethan Receptivity – Jacobean Popularity – The Arena of Ambiguity – From Barbarity to Civility.- 5.&nbsp;Thyestean Savagery: Seneca, the Renaissance, and the Theatre of Cruelty&nbsp;Beyond Recitatio – The Sacrificial Crisis – Contagious Furor and Insatiability – Ritual and Bacchic Theatre – William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus directed by Yukio Ninagawa.- 6.&nbsp;Artaud and the ‘Elizabethans’: Revenge Tragedy as Inspiration for a Theatre of Cruelty&nbsp;An Emblematic Approach to Stage Language – Arden of Faversham Revisited – The True Theatre – The Revenger’s Tragedy – The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi – ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore.- 7.&nbsp;Artaud’s Les Cenci&nbsp;From Innocence to Effluence – Les Destructeurs – The Theatre of Cruelty Test.- 8.&nbsp;After Artaud: Peter Brook and The Theatre of Cruelty Season&nbsp;Preparing for a Season of Cruelty – Marat/Sade: On Stage – Marat/Sade: On Screen – Theatre as Cure.- 9.&nbsp;Conclusion.</div></div>