Theatricality Beyond Disciplines

This book expands on theories of 'theatricality' in French and critical studies, adopting a transdisciplinary approach that reaches beyond performance studies into poetry, media technology, translation and psychoanalytic theory.

Building on Artaud’s concept of theatre as a 'plague' – an unpredictable, cataclysmic and contagious force that disrupts power structures and knowledge – the book challenges Aristotelian norms of theatre as a medium of 'healing' and 'teaching'. Instead, theatricalit...