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1. Introduction.2. Interpreting Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty Foundations: Théâtre Alfred Jarry – Three Influential Events – Elizabethan Dramatic Conventions – Cruelty in the Theatre.3. Theatre and Plague: The Doubly Potent Spectacles of Early Modern Culture The Marseilles Plague – Physiological and Psychological Symptoms of Plague – Plague in Early Modern England – The Plague-Theatre – Filth and Infection – Theatre, Contagion, and Ritual.4. Bear-baiting and the Theatre of Cruelty The Pit and The Theatre – Elizabethan Receptivity – Jacobean Popularity – The Arena of Ambiguity – From Barbarity to Civility.5. Thyestean Savagery: Seneca, the Renaissance, and the Theatre of Cruelty Beyond Recitatio – The Sacrificial Crisis – Contagious Furor and Insatiability – Ritual and Bacchic Theatre – William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus directed by Yukio Ninagawa.6. Artaud and the ‘Elizabethans’: Revenge Tragedy as Inspiration for a Theatre of Cruelty An Emblematic Approach to Stage Language – Arden of Faversham Revisited – The True Theatre – The Revenger’s Tragedy – The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi – ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore.- 7. Artaud’s Les Cenci From Innocence to Effluence – Les Destructeurs – The Theatre of Cruelty Test.8. After Artaud: Peter Brook and The Theatre of Cruelty Season Preparing for a Season of Cruelty – Marat/Sade: On Stage – Marat/Sade: On Screen – Theatre as Cure.9. Conclusion.