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Nestroy and Brecht: Aspects of Modern German Folk Comedy
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The Galileo plays of Bertolt Brecht and Barrie Stavis
During the 1940s Bertolt Brecht and Barrie Stavis simultaneously explored the morality of modern science through the dramatization of Galileo's seventeenth century recantation of the truth involving the physical universe. Significant, yet contrasting statements were made about the modern world.
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Brecht from page to mouth: a practical approach to Brecht's theatre on foot of an original translation of his Baallearning play fragments of 1930
… but only the second is pleasant - Bertolt Brecht This thesis has at its heart the translation of the fragments of the 1930 learning play project Brecht was planning on the basis of his already well-known and notorious theatrical creation Baal, the protagonist of his eponymous play. The …
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Untersuchungen zum Theater Karl Valentins und zu seinen Auswirkungen auf Bertolt Brecht
… Valentin's drama on the development of Bertolt Brecht's theatrical theories
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The expressionist debate in the light of the concerns of postmodernity : Lukacs, Brecht, Lyotard and Habermas
… the debate between Georg Lukács and Bertolt Brecht in the 1930s, known as the Expressionist Debate and the controversy between Jean-Francais Lyotard and Juergen Habermas. which took place in the 1980s. The two debates. both of which took place among writers of the Left are juxtaposed in order …
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Morality and Society in J.M.R. Lenz’s dramas and their resonance in the works of G. Büchner and B. Brecht
… a line to Georg Büchner (1813–37) and Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956). It focuses on themes of morality and society that reappear in dramatic works of all three authors, and particularly, their use and analysis of realistic writing styles on stage for a radical, social purpose. Chapter One examines …
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Elisabeth Hauptmann: Brecht's silent collaborator
… Elisabeth Hauptmann's contributions to Bertolt Brecht's works. Handwritten and typed material from the ""Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv"" and the ""Literaturarchiv der Akademie der Kunste,"" where Elisabeth Hauptmann's papers are held in Berlin, as well as the Brecht Collection at Harvard, substantiate …
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The Paris Commune on the stage: Vallès, Grieg, Brecht, Adamov, a comparative study about the representation of historical reality in modern theatre
… Grieg’s <em>Nederlaget</em> (1937), Bertolt Brecht’s <em>Die Tage der Commune</em> (1948-49) and Arthur Adamov’s <em>Le Printemps 71</em> (1960). The latter three dramas are closely connected by reason of their respective mode and history of origin: Brecht used Grieg’s drama as the basis for …
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Prostitution as Power: Selected Works of Lotte Lenya (1910-1940)
… in selected works of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, regarding the leading female figure of their works - Lotte Lenya. In an attempt to address this theme within specific confinements, this thesis engages in a scholarly and critical examination of selected songs from the collaborative work of …
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Five ‘Exits’ from Brecht: Towards New Brechtian Subjectivities in Film. How can Brechtian v-effekts be developed or adapted in the light of contemporary understandings of subjectivity?
… an artist-filmmaker working in, and against, the Brechtian tradition. My practice experiments with ways to repurpose the alienation technique, the Verfremdungseffeckt (v-effekt), challenging the limitations of the continued use of formal critical methods in the Brechtian tradition. For this …
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Die rundköpfe und die spitzköpfe oder reich und reich gesellt sich gern Ein Greuelmärchen: an analysis of Bertolt Brecht’s creative reception of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
… Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure by Bertolt Brecht, whose parable Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe represents the fruit of this literary relationship. Before the investigation of the reception process itself could be undertaken, an interpretation of the model, Measure for Measure, was …
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Hands-On Realism: Perception, Imagination, and Speech in Brecht's Poetry
Brecht’s somewhat idiosyncratic conception of realist art appears to pit “Erlebnisse” unfavourably against “Kenntnisse”. With all that is encompassed by the term Verfremdung, Brecht is understood to have looked to thwart would-be passive spectators. But while it is tempting to think of Brecht in …
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Clowning in the Brechtian tradition
… can be used to augment the aims and effects of a Brechtian theatricality. To do so, it first establishes a series of characteristic processes for the identification and analysis of clowning, based on the author's own clown training with John Wright and Philippe Gaulier. It then explores the nature …
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Entertainment News: Agitprop to Colbertisms
… Contributors include Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht, Hallie Flanagan and Arthur Arent, and Augusto Boal. Influential factors include technology, politics, and the influence of theatrical movements. The most popular and most frequent contributors to contemporary newspaper theatre are the …
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The Younger Generation in Brecht's Dramatic Work
While it is well-known that Bertolt Brecht made substantial contributions to "Children's Literature" and that young characters appear frequently in his literary oeuvre, it has not been sufficiently noticed that major conflicts in Brecht's dramatic work, commonly identified as class conflict, …
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Poetics of Displacement: Twentieth -Century Chinese -Western Intercultural Theatre
… theatre. Chapter Seven demonstrates the ways Brecht and Meyerhold were displaced in contemporary Chinese theatre. Chapter Eight is a case study of ""mutual displacement"" as exemplified in some Shakespearean adaptations in Chinese traditional theatrical forms, demonstrating how both …
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Eu e cada um: uma troca de experiências entre jovens periféricos
… trabalho a partir de teatrólogos como:Bertolt Brecht, Augusto Boal e Viola Spolin. Também compõem o escopo teórico desta pesquisa, Paulo Freire, com sua visão sobre metodologia de ensino e Jiddu Krishnamurti que trata do conceito de autoconhecimento.
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The Scavenger's daughter
… a modernist aesthetic in the vein of Artaud, Brecht, and Beckett. The play centres around a travelling merchant who builds and sells automatons which bear a close resemblance to the mythical Golem. He sells one of his automatons to a group of shepherds. When the "body" breaks a conflict begins …
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Three Voices for voices, woodwind, percussion, and string instruments
… and Spanish texts. The texts are chosen from Brecht Bertolt's Das Schiff, Po Chu I's Lang T'ao Sha, and Frederico Garcia Lorcá's Mar. Significant features of the piece are 1) application of Chinese operatic singing methods to vocal material in the sections that use Chinese text, 2) use of …
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