Book contents
- Brecht and Tragedy
- Classics After Antiquity
- Brecht and Tragedy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Texts and Translations
- Introduction: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics
- Part I Point of Contact 1948
- Part II Positionings
- 5 The Other Other: Brecht’s Asia
- 6 Naturalism and Related Diseases
- 7 Schiller: Rival and Inspiration
- 8 Comedy and the Comic
- 9 Shakespeare and the Road Beyond Tragedy
- Part III Comparatist Explorations
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Schiller: Rival and Inspiration
from Part II - Positionings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2021
- Brecht and Tragedy
- Classics After Antiquity
- Brecht and Tragedy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Texts and Translations
- Introduction: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics
- Part I Point of Contact 1948
- Part II Positionings
- 5 The Other Other: Brecht’s Asia
- 6 Naturalism and Related Diseases
- 7 Schiller: Rival and Inspiration
- 8 Comedy and the Comic
- 9 Shakespeare and the Road Beyond Tragedy
- Part III Comparatist Explorations
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Brecht was exposed to schiller, a formative influence throughout his life, from an early age. While schiller supplied brecht with tragic language (both as langue and parole) and an intellectualist attitude towwards drama, his idealistic conception of theatre, human morality and freedom provoked parodic responses from brecht, especially in his st joan of the stockyards.
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- Brecht and TragedyRadicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics, pp. 240 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021