From the 1920s to the end of the Second World War, in Europe but especially in France, scholars, playwrights and directors increasingly paid attention to classical theatre, to the Tragic. Cocteau, Giraudoux, Gide, Anouilh, ...

This paper invites the reader to revisit some of the most productive encounters between psychoanalysis and theatre, taking the relationship between character, actor and the spectator’s response as its thread. It starts ...

This paper analyzes the theatre aesthetics of Sarah Kane, considerable dramatist of the theatre new wave known as In-yer-face theatre, moving from playwriting and staging of her second drama, Phaedra’s ...