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Bertolt brecht

Bertol Brecht was a playwright from the late 1800’s who sought to put a message out through his theatre performances. Brecht used many dramatic devices and techniques to do this in a very different and individual process, so that the audience would not become attached to the characters he used in his scripts. Why you ask is it important for the audience to remain unattached to the characters? Using the Caucasian chalk circle as an example to explain why this is important, how its works, and what other dramatic devices Brecht uses.

Original name: Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, born. Feb. 10, 1898, Augsburg, Germany. German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer whose epic theatre departed from the conventions of regular theatre and developed the drama as a social and ideological forum for Marxist causes. Brecht was, first, a superior poet, with a command of many styles and moods. As a playwright he was an hard worker, a restless piecer-together of ideas not always his own (The...

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