Vassiliki Rapti is Preceptor in Modern Greek in the Department of The Classics at Harvard University, USA, where she is also serving as Research Fellow in Greek Literature and Language Pedagogy at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, DC).

'Rapti (classics, Harvard) offers a dense, erudite argument that surrealist drama is not mimetic but methectic ... Summing Up: Recommended.' Choice ’... reintroduces the reader to work of playwrights with whom scholars and readers of surrealism are not necessarily familiar ... demonstrates that the appeal of surrealist ludics is indeed universal and therefore exceeds all cultural boundaries.’ Comparative Drama

• Introduction: Does Surrealist Theatre Exist?; Chapter 1 The Surrealist Game “One into Another” in Nadja and Les Détraquées. Reconstructing André Breton’s Ludic Dramatic Theory; Chapter 2 Staging “Mad love” in the Théâtre Alfred Jarry: Breton’s Ludic Dramatic Theory in Practice; Chapter 3; Chapter 4 Playing with language: Antonin Artaud’s paidia and Robert Wilson’s ludus; Chapter 5 Ludics in Megan Terry’s “theatre of transformations”; conclu Conclusion;

Vassiliki Rapti is Preceptor in Modern Greek in the Department of The Classics at Harvard University, USA, where she is also serving as Research Fellow in Greek Literature and Language Pedagogy at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, DC).

'Rapti (classics, Harvard) offers a dense, erudite argument that surrealist drama is not mimetic but methectic ... Summing Up: Recommended.' Choice ’... reintroduces the reader to work of playwrights with whom scholars and readers of surrealism are not necessarily familiar ... demonstrates that the appeal of surrealist ludics is indeed universal and therefore exceeds all cultural boundaries.’ Comparative Drama

• Introduction: Does Surrealist Theatre Exist?; Chapter 1 The Surrealist Game “One into Another” in Nadja and Les Détraquées. Reconstructing André Breton’s Ludic Dramatic Theory; Chapter 2 Staging “Mad love” in the Théâtre Alfred Jarry: Breton’s Ludic Dramatic Theory in Practice; Chapter 3; Chapter 4 Playing with language: Antonin Artaud’s paidia and Robert Wilson’s ludus; Chapter 5 Ludics in Megan Terry’s “theatre of transformations”; conclu Conclusion;

Vassiliki Rapti is Preceptor in Modern Greek in the Department of The Classics at Harvard University, USA, where she is also serving as Research Fellow in Greek Literature and Language Pedagogy at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, DC).

'Rapti (classics, Harvard) offers a dense, erudite argument that surrealist drama is not mimetic but methectic ... Summing Up: Recommended.' Choice ’... reintroduces the reader to work of playwrights with whom scholars and readers of surrealism are not necessarily familiar ... demonstrates that the appeal of surrealist ludics is indeed universal and therefore exceeds all cultural boundaries.’ Comparative Drama

• Introduction: Does Surrealist Theatre Exist?; Chapter 1 The Surrealist Game “One into Another” in Nadja and Les Détraquées. Reconstructing André Breton’s Ludic Dramatic Theory; Chapter 2 Staging “Mad love” in the Théâtre Alfred Jarry: Breton’s Ludic Dramatic Theory in Practice; Chapter 3; Chapter 4 Playing with language: Antonin Artaud’s paidia and Robert Wilson’s ludus; Chapter 5 Ludics in Megan Terry’s “theatre of transformations”; conclu Conclusion;