The Rendering Of Cruelty In The Post-modern Drama

Study of postmodern drama is an important part in the study of modern and contemporary drama.Influenced by the postmodern ideological trend,postmodern drama art developed in the 20 th century,a large number of outstanding works of postmodern drama,showing the unique theatre aesthetics,"Cruel" and "cruelty" is one of the features of postmodernism plays prominent aesthetic spirit Postmodern drama on the drama creation spirit is affected by the theory of "cruel drama",presented in both the text and stage showing Artaud’s inheritance and development of the concept of drama.This article through to the "cruel drama" theory research,trying to define "cruel" and“cruelty” and from the “cruel drama”,then comb "cruelty" from two aspects of postmodern drama,the text and form.This article selects the 20 representative or have translated performance of the works,from their all aspects of the form of text and combing the "cruelty" of the specific expression,then analysis the "cruelty" of the change in the modernist drama development context,summarizes its evolution rule.