Claude Schumacher

Antonin Artaud

Brian Singleton

One of the great daring mapmakers. --Susan Sontag

Artaud on Theatre

'All of Artaud''s theatrical ideas collected in one volume Artaud''s cherished dream was to found a new kind of theatre in France that would not be an artistic spectacle, but a communion between spectators and actors. This volume contains all of Artaud''s key writings on theatre and cinema from 1921 to his death in 1948, together with a definitive commentary on the key texts of this 20th-century theatre visionary. Although his potent theories were never successfully realised during his own tortured lifetime, his revolutionary ideas have inspired the work of Genet, Arrabal, The Living Theatre, Grotowski, Brook and most experimental drama and performance work of the last decades. ''Artaud was one of the most influential figures in European theatre, one of the great, daring mapmakers of the consciousness in extremis.'' (Susan Sontag) ''For Artaud, the actor is the victim at the stake desperately signalling through the flames''. Peter Brook'

Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire

Critical Monographs in English

Therese Raquin

Glynne W. Wickham

John Northam

This fourth volume in the series Theatre in Europe charts the development of theatrical presentation at a time of great cultural and political upheaval.

Naturalism and Symbolism in European Theatre 1850-1918

John Ireland

David Bradby

This book considers Holocaust plays 'in performance' and the legitimacy of presenting the Holocaust on the stage.

Claude Schumacher

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