Bertolt Brecht was born in Bavaria in 1898. He started writing plays after Germany's defeat in World War One, as he felt the government was disloyal. His plays introduced a new style of theatre that sought to redefine the relationships between the audience and the performance. The techniques he use...

Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children Seminar Paper Theatrical & Dramatic Conventions Brechts intensions when writing Mother Courage and her children were to communicate his beliefs and make people aware of two issues facing society: war and capitalism. According to Brecht, people des...

"The Hardships of Mankind" At first glance you might say that Bertolt Brecht's poem "The World's One Hope" is very similar to W.H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts." Brecht's poem is about the oppression of mankind and Auden writes about mankind&ap...

Scene Eleven from the play "Mother Courage and Her Children" and Act One, Scene Four from "Summer of the Aliens" are scenes that are performed very differently, according to their theatrical styles and using conventions relating to those styles. The context in each scene is diverse, too, however...

Bertolt Brecht, In Mother Courage, challenges the accepted concepts of three major values of western society: capitalism, religion, and heroes. He shows how capitalism is flawed by the actions Mother Courage does in order to sustain herself. He challenges religion by showing the hypocrisy of its lea...

One of the most significant and interesting parts of world history started with Adolf Hitler's rise to power and the events following, until his death. Through satire, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, written by Bertolt Brecht, describes this period. Hitler's rise to power is described ...

Over the past few months I have been studying a range of poems. Many poets describe the people in their poems as heroes, noble men and courageous. For many people war dramatically changed their lives forever. Some of the poems that I studied were Dulce et Decorum Est, Mental Cases by Wilfred Ow...

Wallace and Galilei; Heroes or Zeroes? In the play Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, the main character Galileo Galilei, is forced to recant and turn on his ideals for the sake of his life. The little monk warned Galileo before he divulged his findings, that they could be disastrous to the metaphysical ...

One of Bertolt Brecht's philosophies on theater was that the audience should see the behind the scenes goings on of the play. If there was a fan blowing fake snow flakes onto the stage the audience should see the fan. He thought this was impotent because it reminds the audience that they a...

TONY KUSHNER Tony Kushner was born in New York City, Manhattan, New York in 1956. He was raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Both of his parents were musicians, and they encouraged him to follow his dreams seeing that he took interest in theatre at a young age. He's Jewish and practic...