Bertolt Brecht

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Standard Name: Brecht, Bertolt

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Intertextuality and Influence Michelene Wandor
The work deals with theatre and sexual politics since 1968, with an emphasis on alternative theatre groups such as the Women's Theatre Group , Gay Sweatshop , and Monstrous Regiment . The original version considers...
Performance of text Michelene Wandor
Since the early 1990s, MW has turned her attention to music. Her libretti and radio plays include works based on poems by John Cornford , John Milton , and Ariosto : Spain, first performed...
Textual Features Ali Smith
Although certainly located in the Brechtian tradition of epic theatre, with its political resonances and self-referentiality, it is likewise identifiable as theatre of the absurd (as AS points out),
Smith, Ali. “Just”. Shell Connections 2005: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, pp. 275-24.
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with the apparent influences of...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In 1932 DR missed out on a chance to work with Bertolt Brecht . Shortly after the release of The Dubarry, of which her translation received excellent notices, she received a request from Brecht...
Textual Features Adrienne Rich
This volume's title and epigraph are taken from The Great Gatsby. Like AR 's other works, Dark Fields of the Republic reflects a diverse group of artistic and social influences, which include the Bible...
Textual Features Claire Luckham
Scum takes place in a laundry at the time of the Paris commune (between September 1870 and January 1871). Making use of the Brechtian techniques of song and direct address, the play establishes connections between...
Intertextuality and Influence Claire Luckham
Intended for a working-class audience, the play was inspired in part by Brecht ; CL says she was particularly interested in his enthusiasm for boxing and the relationship between fighters and their audience.
Reinelt, Janelle. “Beyond Brecht: Britain’s New Feminist Drama”. Feminist Theatre and Theory, edited by Helene Keyssar, St Martin’s Press, pp. 25-48.
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Its...
Textual Features Claire Luckham
The metatheatrical first act takes place during rehearsals for William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet (in which Kemble made her triumphant stage debut on 5 October 1829); in it Kemble's aunt Sarah Siddons instructs her niece on playing...
Reception Sarah Kane
A propos the Sheffield production of 2015, Alan Bennett commented on the difficulty of achieving realism with such extreme violence: how can a character mutilated on stage be shown as having attention for anything at...
Intertextuality and Influence Bessie Head
The title in fact echoes that of her first novel, since in Setswana it means clouds, weather, or the elements. Eilenberg believes that roots of this story lie in BH 's erotic involvement, during her...
Occupation Germaine Greer
During this period she added film to stage performance in it droppeth as the gentle rain, a surrealist work by Albie Thoms (who was later an avant-garde film-maker of some fame). Designed to be...
Textual Features Pam Gems
Structured along the lines of Brecht ian epic theatre, but filmic in many of its methods, PG 's drama presents a sequence of episodes from the life of the seventeenth-century Swedish ruler Queen Christina ....
Leisure and Society Margaret Forster
MF also acted while at Oxford, taking the role of the peasant girl Grusha in a production of Brecht 's The Caucasian Chalk Circle that was directed and starred in by Dennis Potter . During...
Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
In a historical novel or fictional biography entitled Loving Brecht, EF presented Frieda Bloom, an invented cabaret singer, relating her life with Bertolt Brecht , in Germany (Berlin), Moscow, and the USA...
Intertextuality and Influence Elaine Feinstein
Home in this collection opens, Where is that I wonder? It then evokes comfortable, elegant settings of both childhood and adult life, and also a place where the poet awakes from dreaming of her dead...

Timeline

10 May 1933: Following a speech from Joseph Goebbels,...

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10 May 1933

Following a speech from Joseph Goebbels , over 40,000 people participated in burning books to cleanse German literature and root out Jewish intellectualism.

21-25 June 1935: The First International Congress of Writers...

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21-25 June 1935

The First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture (an anti-fascist event urging the responsibility of writers to their society) was held in Paris.

9 September 1943: Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, a powerful drama...

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9 September 1943

Bertolt Brecht 's Galileo, a powerful drama about the clash between state authorities and intellectual freedom, was first staged, in German, at Zurich in neutral Switzerland.

September 1947: The US House Committee for Un-American Activities...

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September 1947

The USHouse Committee for Un-American Activities (HUAC) began issuing subpoenas to leading figures in the entertainment industry, three years before the communist witch-hunting of Senator Joseph McCarthy made him a household name.

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