Did Meyerhold Influence Brecht? A Comparison of Their Antirealistic Theatrical Aesthetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3971317 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Zazzali (0009-0003-2794-2612, Yahoo (United Kingdom), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 293-305 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770802052400 |
| OpenAlex | W2039083295 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
As two of the most important twentieth-century theatre directors, Bertolt Brecht and Vsevolod Meyerhold shared striking artistic, personal, and professional similarities. In addition to their middle-class background, both were the sons of merchants, well educated, politically persecuted, and exposed to the cultural innovations that spread throughout Germany and Russia during the 1920s and 1930s. Although Brecht's legacy is more salient, Meyerhold's artistic contributions can be traced to the work of numerous successors, including Brecht himself
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Salient · History · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Theater, Performance, and Music History · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |