qtd. in
Reinelt, Janelle. “Beyond Brecht: Britain’s New Feminist Drama”. Feminist Theatre and Theory, edited by Helene Keyssar, St Martin’s Press, 1996, pp. 25-48.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Carson | AC
's contributions include rendering Fragment 286 by the Greek poet Ibykos
in the manner successively of various more modern voices: John Donne
, Samuel Beckett
, Franz Kafka
, an FBI
report on Bertolt Brecht |
Intertextuality and Influence | Bessie Head | The title in fact echoes that of her first novel, since in Setswana it means clouds, weather, or the elements. Eilenberg believes that roots of this story lie in BH
's erotic involvement, during her... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Claire Luckham | Intended for a working-class audience, the play was inspired in part by Brecht
; CL
says she was particularly interested in his enthusiasm for boxing and the relationship between fighters and their audience. qtd. in Reinelt, Janelle. “Beyond Brecht: Britain’s New Feminist Drama”. Feminist Theatre and Theory, edited by Helene Keyssar, St Martin’s Press, 1996, pp. 25-48. 40 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | Home in this collection opens, Where is that I wonder? It then evokes comfortable, elegant settings of both childhood and adult life, and also a place where the poet awakes from dreaming of her dead... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | The range of allusion in these poems is extraordinarily wide although the tone is never pretentious. Gluttony is described as a ballad after the manner of Bert Brecht
. Feinstein, Elaine. Gold. Carcanet, 2000. 49 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michelene Wandor | The work deals with theatre and sexual politics since 1968, with an emphasis on alternative theatre groups such as the Women's Theatre Group
, Gay Sweatshop
, and Monstrous Regiment
. The original version considers... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah Arendt | |
Leisure and Society | Margaret Forster | MF
also acted while at Oxford, taking the role of the peasant girl Grusha in a production of Brecht
's The Caucasian Chalk Circle that was directed and starred in by Dennis Potter
. During... |
Occupation | Maya Angelou | In Cairo the African-American journalist David Du Bois
helped MA
to get a job as assistant editor on a new English-language weekly called the Arab Observer (the only non-male, non-Arab, non-Muslim on its staff). In... |
Occupation | Germaine Greer | During this period she added film to stage performance in it droppeth as the gentle rain, a surrealist work by Albie Thoms
(who was later an avant-garde film-maker of some fame). Designed to be... |
Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | Since the early 1990s, MW
has turned her attention to music. Her libretti and radio plays include works based on poems by John Cornford
, John Milton
, and Ariosto
: Spain, first performed... |
politics | Hannah Arendt | After the Reichstag fire of 27 February 1933, Günther Stern fled to Paris (fearing the Gestapo would catch up with him as a contact of Bertolt Brecht
). HA
remained in Berlin, and associated herself... |
Reception | Sarah Kane | A propos the Sheffield production of 2015, Alan Bennett
commented on the difficulty of achieving realism with such extreme violence: how can a character mutilated on stage be shown as having attention for anything at... |
Residence | Sybille Bedford | Later, after the Reichstag fire in the spring of 1933, distinguished exiles from Nazi Germany, Jews and left-wingers who got out early, began to choose Sanary as their temporary home: Bertolt Brecht
, Thomas Mann |
Textual Features | Angela Carter | According to Linden Peach
, the writings of Bertolt Brecht
and Mikhail Bakhtin
influenced AC
's notions of theatre and the carnivalesque, which are central features of Nights at the Circus. However, Peach went... |
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