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This paper shows that Baudelaire had a great importance for the evolution of modern ideas concerning the art of theatre. In some fragments of his writings, Baudelaire imagines a hyperbolical show, which should be able to combine pantomime, symbolical masks, magical tricks, suggestive music and painting, as well as the most powerful resources of verbal language. By these ideas, Baudelaire anticipates the views of Antonin Artaud (Le Théâtre et son double) and Hermann Hesse (Der Steppenwolf) on what they call a magical theatre, with an entrance open only for mad people. The paper is based on a comparative interpretation of Baudelaire, Artaud, Hesse, and on a very pertinent interdisciplinary approach, meant to recreate the dialogue between theatre and other arts at the very beginning of our modernity.

Keywords: hyperbole, theatricality, madness, magic theatre, mask, modernity.