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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9562
Title: Brecht and Shakespeare: The Coriolan Adaptation
Authors: LaPietra, Marie Diana
Advisor: Schulte, Hans H.
Department: German
Keywords: German Language and Literature;German Language and Literature
Publication Date: Apr-1979
Abstract: <p>This study attmepts to present a thorough comparative analysis and evaluation of Brecht's Coriolan adaptation and his Shakespearean model. Brecht's actual achievement is measured by the standards of his critical theory of literary adaptation of classical drama, and especially of Shakespeare, on the modern, 'epic' stage. It is shown why Brecht's insistence on shifting our central interest and sympathy from the hero, on whom Shakespeare had focussed the entire action, to the people's collective, had to result in an admirable failure.</p>
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9562
Identifier: opendissertations/4674
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