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By the same author ay published COLLECTED WORKS VOLUME ONE. Correspondence with Jacques Riviere Umbilical Limbo Nerve Scales Artand Death Unpublished Prose and Poetry (Cup and Ball Seven Letters Appendix, COLLECTED WORKS VOLUME TWO The Alfred Jarry Theatre Two Stage Scenarios and Two Production Plans Reviews (On Literature and The Plastic Arts COLLECTED WORKS VOLUME THREE Scenarios on the Cinema Interviews Letters ‘THE CENCI (a play) THE THEATRE AND IS DOUBLE ‘THE DEATH OF SATAN AND OTHER MYSTICAL WRITINGS (essays) In Preparation COLLECTED WORKS VOLUME FIVE Heliogabale ‘The New Revelation of Being Correspondence with André Breton COLLECTED WORKS VOLUME SIX On Topical Problems Two Articles for Viole Private Notes Satan Notes On Oriental, Greek And Indian Cultures and Mexico Art And Civilisation Revolutionary Statements Throe Lectures Given At The University of Mexico City, Mexico Franz Hals, Oritz Monasterio, Maria lzquierdo Letters VAN GOUGH: THESUICIDED MAN, ANTONIN ARTAUD COLLECTED WORKS VOLUME FOUR translated by Victor Corti THE THEATRE AND ITS DOUBLE SERAPHIM'S THEATRE THE CENCI DOCUMENTS ON “THE THEATRE AND ITS DOUBLE” DOCUMENTS ON "THE CENCI’ John Calder London First published in Great Britain 1974 By Calder & Boyars Lid., Originally published in France as Antonin Artaud: Ocwores Completes, Tome 1V by Editions Gallimard, Paris 1964 This edition reprinted 1999 by John Calder Publisher © Editions Gallimard, 1964 © This translation, John Calder (Publishers) Ltd., 1974,1999 ISBN 0 7145 0623 0 paper ALL RIGHTS RESERVED British Libary Cataloguing in Publication Data i available Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data is avail able. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, photo- copying, mechanical or otherwise, except brief extracts for review, without the prior written permission of the Copyright owner and publisher. Printed and bound in England by Redwood Books CONTENTS PART I The Theatre and its Double Preface: Theatre and Culture ‘Theatre and the Plague Production and Metaphysics Alchemist Theatre On the Balinese Theatre Oriental and Western Theatre No More Masterpiec:s Theatre and Cruelty The Theatre of Cruelty (First Manifesto) Letters on Cruelty Letters on Language The Theatre of Cruelty (Second Manifesto) ‘An Affective Athleticism Two Notes PART IL Seraphim’s Theatre PART II The Cenci APPENDIX Documents relating to The Theatre and its Double Documents relating to The Cenci Notes m1 19 187 189 199 PART I THE THEATRE AND ITS DOUBLE

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