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How Successful is Brecht's 'The Good Person of Szechwan' as an example of Epic Theatre?
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How Successful is Brecht's 'The Good Person of Szechwan' as an example of Epic Theatre? Bertolt Brecht was born in February 1898 in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. Up until 1924 Brecht lived in Bavaria. He declared himself as an anti-militarist at the age of eighteen, and to avoid conscription into the army he decided to study medicine at Munich University, but he ended up carrying out his military service at an army hospital in Augsburg. During this particular period of time Brecht had developed a violently Anti-bourgeois attitude. This was an attitude that seemed to reflect the rest of Brecht's generations mounting deep disappointment in the civilization in which they lived that had come crashing down around them at the end of the First World War. Brecht's plays are, in the most part, quite apparent and confident, but Brecht's own theorizing however is not so clear-cut. Brecht is probably less unique than he...
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