The Good Woman of Setzuan Bertolt Brecht

Lennox (1978) argues that Brecht was “unable to see real women in their full dimensions” perhaps due to “a terror of women like that possessed by many men”. Accepting this, Brecht’s portrayal of women is in terms of stereotypes only slightly...

Literature often presents itself in different themes and messages for audience members. These themes may be reoccurring or even opposing at times between different texts. The play The Good Person of Szchecwan by Bertolt Brecht and Autobiography of...

“Epic theatre’s basic effort is to make familiar strange, show the world as alterable, hold events at a temporal distance and as Bretch writes, reveal the human being as “as the sum of all circumstances”.”Alisa Solman

In response to the political...