The Theater and Its Double
Who is Marquis de Sade from The Theater and Its Double and what is their importance?
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The Marquis de Sade was a French author of the nineteenth century who gave his name to a sexual perversion. The Marquis is mentioned in the first manifesto of "The Theater of Cruelty" as an example of extreme use of eroticism in literature.