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1. 1. Cruelty And Desire In The Modern Theater

   Antonin Artaud, Sarah Kane, and Samuel Beckett

   

   An exploration of how modern drama harnesses cruelty and desire to rethink embodiment, language, and spectatorship, drawing on Artaud’s theatre of cruelty and close readings of Beckett and Kane; it argues that staging pain, longing, and the fractured body destabilizes identity and representation while provoking a fraught, ethically charged encounter between performance and audience.

2. 2. Sarah Kane In Context

   

   A scholarly companion that situates a landmark “in-yer-face” British playwright within wider theatrical, philosophical, and socio-political currents, surveying influences from Greek tragedy to Artaud and Beckett, the controversies surrounding early premieres, debates on ethics, trauma, and the representation of violence, and the plays’ performance histories and global reception, while offering insights into staging practices, translation, and enduring legacy in contemporary theatre.