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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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  • Table of contents; list of images; preface; acknowledgements; introduction; part i; the theatre union's 1935 production of brecht's the mother; misconception & misunderstanding; broadway & the depoliticization of epic theatre; part ii; between broadway & ground zero; a new brechtian musical?; virtuosic alienation; part iii; the resistible rise of jerry springer; brecht's "u-effect"; appendix; contributors; index.