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8 - Comedy and the Comic

from Part II - Positionings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2021

Martin Revermann
Martin Revermann
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

The brechtian tragic is inconceivable without the brechtian comic. Virtually no brecht play lacks a strong comic dimension, covering the whole range of the genre (parody, commedia, slapstick, clown etc.). Brechtian tragi-comedies call for special attention in this context, and this chapter contains detailed analyses of the resistible rise of arturo ui as well as the fragmentary, aristophanes-inspired pluto revue.

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Brechtcomedycharlie chaplinbrecht the bread storebrecht the resistible rise of arturo uibrecht pluto revuedialectics
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Brecht and Tragedy
Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics
 , pp. 251 - 273
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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