Abstract

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Exploring styles - Bond's Saved, Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities and Weiss's Vietnam-Discourse 2. The Brechtian approach to the classics - Schiller's Intrigue and Love and Goethe's Torquato Tasso 3. Theatre structures old and new - Bond's Early Morning and Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling in Zurich, and the move to the Schaubuhne, Berlin 4. Theatre of revolution - Brecht's The Mother, Worker's Theatre and Vishnevsky's Optimistic Tragedy 5. The myth of bourgeois individualism - Ibsen's Peer Gynt 6. From bourgeois past to bourgeois present - Kleist's Prinz von Homburg, Labishe's Piggy Bank, the Antiquity Project, Gorky's Summerfolk, Handke and Botho Strauss 7. Confrontation with Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Memory and As You Like it 8. Conclusion - Stein the explorer and the Schaubuhne as model Bibliography Index.

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