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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 contact our publicity
manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu
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October
2002
210 pp. 6 x 9 7 b/w illus.
In English and German
ISBN 0-9718963-0-5 Paper $30.00 s
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