Brecht and the Bible A Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's Drama of Morality and the City

• 1. autor: Murphy, G. Ronald (auth)
• Format: Elektroniczne Rozdział
• Język: angielski
• Wydane: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 1980
• Seria: UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
• Hasła przedmiotowe: Literary studies: plays & playwrights; German studies; Literature; Theatre and Drama
• Dostęp online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Streszczenie

This study identifies the underlying patterns of persistent biblical allusion in the work of renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht. Rather than reducing Brecht's use of the Bible to the purely satirical, the author interprets the full dramatic function of Brecht's complex use of scripture. Using examples from plays written throughout the span of Brecht's career, Murphy shows how Brecht invokes the stories of Old Testament figures such as Job and Isaiah as well as the crucifixion accounts of the New Testament in order to build sympathetic characters and explore his more political themes.

Opis fizyczny

1 electronic resource (122 p.)

ISBN

9781469656755_Murphy

Ograniczenie dostępu

Open Access