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Brecht at Seventy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2022

Martin Esslin
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      I require no tombstone, but
      If you require one for me
      I wish it to be inscribed:
      He made suggestions. We
      Accepted them.
      By such an inscription we should
      All be honored.
    Brecht (Collected Poems, Vol. VII)

On February 10, 1968, Brecht would have celebrated his seventieth birthday. It makes one realize how young he died on August 14, 1956 and how rapidly, since he died, he has acquired the status of an established international classic; and yet, ten years earlier, in 1946, he was little more than an unknown and neglected German exile tramping the streets of Los Angeles and New York in search of recognition.

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Research Article
Information
TDR (1967) , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Fall 1967 , pp. 36 - 43
Copyright
Copyright © The Drama Review 1967

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