Brecht

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• At the beginning of the of radio's triumphant March, a German writer named Bertolt Brecht was deeply impressed by the new medium.

• - I staged some Brecht.

  Another Woman (1988)

• - I read an article by you - On Brecht.

  Manhattan (1979)

• Then Peter found himself in America, via Hitchcock, and Brecht found himself in Switzerland, via Hitler.

  Fiction book (1992)

• All he wanted was a Berlin theater job; what Brecht wanted was a talented marionette.

  Fiction book (1992)

• You know, the question is whether the theater now can do for an audience… what Brecht tried to do or what Craig or Duse tried to do.

  My Dinner with Andre (1981)

• Alea situates Brecht's theory of drama within a radical theory of spectator response.

  Academic text (1992)

• Similarly, parallels have been made between Brecht's critique of the bourgeois theater and some of Rousseau's anti-theatrical arguments.

  Academic text (2002)

• Kazanoff's directing credits include productions as varied as Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Lillian Hellman, and Harold Pinter.

  Blog text (23)

• I admire the plays of Brecht for their innovative approach to storytelling and social critique.

Synonyms

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Bertolt Brecht

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A German writer of plays and poems who created epic theatre

is the short form used without the full given name or dates

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Etymology