Antonin Artaud exhibited a keen, if ambiguous, interest in myths 

throughout his work, alternately endowing them with positive and 

negative qualities. In the 1930s, he presented Heliogabalus as a 

"mythomaniac," that is, one who "sees existing myths" and "applies 

them," freeing the pure forces they conceal.'

NATACHA ALLET 

Myth and Legend in 

Antonin Artaud's Theater