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21 février 2013
- handle: 10670/1.9ols3v
- isbn: 9782874631634
- eisbn: 9782875581792
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Robert Potter, « The Brechtian dimensions of Medieval Drama », Presses universitaires de Louvain, ID : 10670/1.9ols3v
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At first glance Bertolt Brecht and the religious drama of the Middle Ages would hardly seem to belong in the same sentence. Brecht after all was a confirmed atheist whose hard-edged twentieth century political theatre mocked Christian pieties. Yet when Brecht’s name came up at a 1998 medieval theatre colloquium in Denmark, invoked as the very antithesis of the medieval, I felt compelled to point out some fascinating links between Brecht’s work and medieval theatre. We subsequently arranged to...