Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Does surrealist theatre exist? -- The surrealist game "one into another" in Nadja and Les D�etraqu�ees: reconstructing Andr�e Breton's Ludic dramatic theory -- Staging "mad love" in the th�e�atre Alfred Garry: Breton's Ludic dramatic theory in practice -- Staging child's play in Roger Vitrac's victor or children in power: between Paidia and Ludus -- Playing with language: Antonin Artaud's Paidia and Robert Wilson's Ludus -- Mimicry and post-surrealist Ludics in Megan Terry's "Theatre of transformations".

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