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Di Ponio’s conclusion sums up her reading of Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty, reminding readers of the dual-nature of cruelty in Artaud’s theatre and of both the early modern influence on Artaud’s theatre and of his influence upon modern practitioners.
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‘Je ne suis pas de ceux qui croient que la civilisation doit changer pour que le théâtre change; mais je crois que le théâtre utilisé dans un sens supérieur et le plus difficile possible a la force d’influer sur l’aspect et sur la formation des choses.’ TD, iv, 95.
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Di Ponio, A. (2018). Conclusion. In: The Early Modern Theatre of Cruelty and its Doubles. Avant-Gardes in Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92249-2_9
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