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The Art of Bertolt Brecht
Adler, Henry | September 8, 1956 issue

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Bertolt Brecht, German playwright who died a fortnight ago, was generally acclaimed the most original, and by many critics the most powerful, of contemporary dramatists. Brecht's theatre is like an operating theatre. The human beings are exposed on the stage, beneath the white light poured down from a battery of lamps which are clearly visible and create no illusion. Epic drama, so-called, was not new in Germany at that time, but Brecht introduced into it a more personal note. He combined with his Marxism a belief in the individual, a strange awareness of the power of the irrational moral choice.

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BRECHT, Bertolt, 1898-1956; DRAMATISTS; THEATER; COMMUNISM; PERFORMING arts; GERMANY
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