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Brecht, Broadway and United States theatre /

Not long after the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, Bertolt Brecht's name was on the lips of many writing about Broadway. Invoked knowingly-but not always knowledgeably-"Brecht" became something between marketing strategy and erudite justification for another season of Broadwa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Westgate, J. Chris
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Not long after the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, Bertolt Brecht's name was on the lips of many writing about Broadway. Invoked knowingly-but not always knowledgeably-"Brecht" became something between marketing strategy and erudite justification for another season of Broadway musicals, another ignominy endured by the German playwright whose epic theater has only seldom been understood in the United States. To say that Brechtian and Broadway theatrical traditions represent diverge ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxix, 196 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781443810180
1443810185