The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic.

IRENE EYNAT-CONFINO is Associate Professor, Department of Theatre Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Introduction The Infernal Machine The Sphinx Laius, Tiresias, and Jocasta Oedipus Dramatic Strategies and Stratagems Cocteau and his Monster Visibility, Invisibility, and the Fantastic Ethics, Alterity, and Designed Emotion