Antony Tatlow Libros

For about thirty years in the middle of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht dominated Western theater by virtue of their difference. Beckett represented a theater of the absurd and Brecht a theater of political commitment, each defining the other by their incompatibilities. Only their successors began to question the dichotomies and to draw on both their legacies. This volume looks back at the common ground of these two their modernism and its legacy, their innovations in new media, the ways they directed their own work, and the shape of their thinking and writing. This territory is explored from the various perspectives of directors, dramaturgs, actors, and theorists in these contributions from a 2001 symposium at the University of Dublin.Distributed for the International Brecht SocietyIn English and German

This book offers 1) a critical analysis both of purported «influence» and of the consequences for Brecht's work of genuine response to Chinese and Japanese forms and thought. 2) a comparative study of that response from the perspective both of Western reaction to East Asia (Meyerhold, Eisenstein, Pound etc.) and of the disjunctions and comparabilities between Western and Eastern modes of expression 3) following a contrastive description of the social context of aesthetic form, a definition of the position of Brecht's work as «critical dialectics».