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Bertolt Brecht, a German socialist, dramatist, stage director and poet believed that theatre should appeal to the spectators dialectics rather than there emotions. Brecht was heavily influenced by a wide variety of sources including Chinese, Japanese, and Indian theatre, the Elizabethans, Greek tragedy, fair-ground entertainments and much more. On the contrary, Brechts own theatrical theories and staging conventions were a direct revolt against the theatre practices of his day. With reference to his ‘epic' dramas; The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Mother Courage and her Children, along with comparison to Dramatic theatre, this response will debate the issues surrounding Brechts revolution of theatre.

Born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht on the 10th of February
1898 in Ausburg, Bavaria in Germany, Brechts childhood and early youth were years full of violent events filled with drama. It was at this time that the capitalist world developed, together with the events that linked to......

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