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
5 - The Other Other: Brecht’s Asia
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
This chapter situates brecht's conception of greece relative to his notions of asia and his use of the asian theatre traditions, in particular japanese noh theatre. This other other supplied brecht with crucial technical ideas but also served as the pure and uncompromised theatre tradition which was uniformly positively connoted.
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- Brecht and TragedyRadicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics, pp. 217 - 229Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021