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Argues that Brecht's simultaneous work on opera and Lehrstuck in the 1920s generated the concept of audience experience that would come to define epic theater, and that his revisions to the theory of Gestus in the mid-1930s are reminiscent of nineteenth-century opera performance practices of mimesis.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 25 Jul 2008
ISBN 10: 0520254821
ISBN 13: 9780520254824