Fine edition 2020 272pp Scarlet Imprint. Illustrated. Handbound in half black goatskin, with yellow silk boards, black and white marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, finished with a silk ribbon and presented in a lined slip case. NM
 
Ltd. ed. 46/51. In Artaud and the Gnostic Drama, Jane Goodall offers a reappraisal of the importance of Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), mythologised as an icon of failure and madness, and examines the intricate parallels between his heretical dramaturgy and the heresies of ancient Gnosticism. The book situates Artaud, as the most extravagant of heretics, in company with the Gnostics whose speculations served to define heresy in the beginnings of the Christian tradition. This work was first published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford in 1994. The text has been lightly revised for this second edition, and is illustrated.