Artaud And The Gnostic Drama by Jane Goodall
This study reads Artaud’s writings and theatrical practice through the lens of Gnostic thought, arguing that his dramaturgy reworks themes of hidden knowledge, cosmic crisis and spiritual redemption into a radically bodily, ritualized form of performance. It traces how violence, contagion, language and sacrificial spectacle function as means of revelation and transfiguration onstage, and situates his ideas within broader intellectual and esoteric currents to show how the theater becomes a site for confronting and temporarily overturning ordinary cosmologies. Close readings of key texts and productions illuminate the ways his aesthetic seeks both to rupture representation and to enact a salvific, anti-cosmic imagination.
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