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German Studies / Drama

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The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch, Volume 27 Where Extremes Meet: Rereading Brecht and Beckett Edited by Antony Tatlow and Stephen Brockmann The Brecht Yearbook An exploration of convergences between Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett, two dramatists generally considered polar opposites For about thirty years in the middle of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht dominated Western theater by virtue of their difference. Beckett represented a theater of the absurd and Brecht a theater of political commitment, each defining the other by their incompatibilities. Only their successors began to question the dichotomies and to draw on both their legacies. This volume looks back at the common ground of these two dramatists: their modernism and its legacy, their innovations in new media, the ways they directed their own work, and the shape of their thinking and writing. This territory is explored from the various perspectives of directors, dramaturgs, actors, and theorists in these contributions from a 2001 symposium at the University of Dublin. Antony Tatlow is professor of comparative literature at the University of Dublin and the author of Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign. He is a past president of the International Brecht Society. Stephen Brockmann, managing editor of the Brecht Yearbook, is associate professor of German at Carnegie Mellon University and the author of Literature and German Reunification. Distributed for the International Brecht Society. For more information regarding publicity and reviews contact our publicity manager, Chris Caldwell, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

October 2002 210 pp.     6 x 9      7 b/w illus.   In English and German   ISBN 978-0-9718963-0-7  Paper $30.00 s Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the "Add this book to cart" link above. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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