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Antonin Artaud's work never made the theatre till around 1920 and when he did many people disaproved with his work, and found it offensive in comparisson to what theatre had been like before his time.
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Antonin Artaud's work never made the theatre till around 1920 and when he did many people disaproved with his work, and found it offensive in comparisson to what theatre had been like before his time. To back to the end of the 18th century would be a sensible place to start as that was a major change in the way playwrights sought to write there theatre pieces. The end of the 18th century was the beginning of the industrial revolution, this meant most of the work that was originally done in rural parts of ritain was done by machiene in many of the larger towns. Many people moved from the countryside to the towns in search of work and the soon beacme crowded. To escape there lives of poverty, strugglement and starvation people sought excitement, forgetfulness and the vision of a better world through entertainment. Playwrights turned to styles of melodramatic peieces to...
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