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Brecht Brecht 1898-1898-19561956

Unity of Time Unity of Time Unity of PlaceUnity of PlaceUnity of ActionUnity of ActionEmotional CatharsisEmotional CatharsisNaturalism/RealismNaturalism/RealismTheatrical IllusionTheatrical Illusion

Aristotelian Theatre Aristotelian Theatre

Epic TheatreEpic Theatre

Episodic Plot StructureEpisodic Plot StructureSetting the StageSetting the StageHistorificationHistorificationActing StyleActing StyleSongSong

Alienation Alienation EffectEffect

Verfremdungseffect- Verfremdungseffect- translates as to translates as to make strangemake strange

To think, to write To think, to write or produce a play or produce a play

also means to also means to transform society, transform society, to transform the to transform the state, to subject state, to subject

ideologies to ideologies to close scrutiny.close scrutiny.-Bertolt Brecht--Bertolt Brecht-

Mother Courage and Her Mother Courage and Her ChildrenChildren

About Mother Courage and About Mother Courage and Her Children Brecht said, Her Children Brecht said, that he wanted to show that he wanted to show that “war, which is a that “war, which is a

continuation of business continuation of business by other means, makes the by other means, makes the human virtues fatal to human virtues fatal to their possessors.” their possessors.”