Bertolt Brecht is among the most important playwrights of the twentieth century – it was he who coined the term "epic theater." His work is deemed sophisticated and sometimes difficult and ...

Out of nowhere, the silent film classic The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari rocketed back into the zeitgeist about five years ago.

The playwright Bertolt Brecht was ... pursuit of a career in the theatre. That period of his life came to an end in 1933 when the Nazis came to power in Germany. Brecht fled and during this ...

As an integral part of his work as a political playwright and dramaturge, Bertolt Brecht concerned himself extensively ... supplemented by surveys of the changing connotations within Brecht's ...

Bertolt Brecht has written 36 shows including Die Sieben Todsünden (Lyricist), Mother (Playwright), Galileo (Playwright), The Good Woman of Setzuan (Playwright), Brecht on Brecht (Lyricist), Man ...

In 1933, German playwright and poet Bertolt ... Brecht was a conscious decision. We wanted to promote critical thinking and ...

It brings together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners, and this edition introduces more voices and themes. The opening essays place Brecht's creative work in its ...

I employ the Lehrstück or didactic play, i.e. a form of partecipatory theatre that Bertolt Brecht originally developed between the 1920s and the 1930s, as the artistic model of my research, which is ...

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He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author's work included avant-garde dramas, philosophical crime novels, and ...