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, theatricality emerg