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Part of the book: Character, Ideology, and Symbolism in the Plays of Wedekind, Sternheim, Kaiser, Toller, and Brecht

M. Helena Gonçalves da Silva

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 21

Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract.  In this study, we have traced a clear line of technical development in dramatic character presentation during a particularly turbulent period of German history and culture. An analysis of five major playwrights Wedekind, Sternheim, Kaiser, Toller, and Brecht - has shown how character, after appearing as a stylized image of modern man at the mercy of social forces, re-emerges as something specifically individual in a type of theatre that is clearly ideological.

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