Text: Deleuze describes Bene’s method of subtraction with Romeo and Juliet:“He does not proceed by addition, but by subtraction, by amputation. […] he amputates Romeo, he neutralizes Romeo in the original play. So the whole play, because it now lack

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Submitted by Asli on Wed, 05/29/2019 - 15:40

Deleuze describes Bene’s method of subtraction with Romeo and Juliet:
“He does not proceed by addition, but by subtraction, by amputation. […] he amputates Romeo, he neutralizes Romeo in the original play. So the whole play, because it now lacks a part chosen nonarbitrarily, will perhaps tip over, turn around on itself, land on another side.“

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