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
6 - Naturalism and Related Diseases
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
Natualism is the closest other for brecht and therefore required the strongest differentiation. As a particularly empathy-driven form of theatre, it provoked particularly polemical responses from him which in turn also helped brecht to articulate his own ideas more clearly.
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- Brecht and TragedyRadicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics, pp. 230 - 239Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021