What influence did Friedrich Schiller’s work have on Bertold Brecht? How do Schiller and Brecht’s major works on figures of the Thirty Years War inform one another? And had Schiller already established techniques that in the 20th century would be called “Epic Theater”? This talk will answer these questions and redefine Brecht’s contentious attitude toward Schiller to analyze Schiller’s engagement with a theatrical aesthetic that would become so broadly attributed to Brecht over a century later.
Matt Straus is a PhD candidate in the School of Drama at the University of Washington.
Portland State University, Feb 27, 3pm Fariborz Maseh Hall 334. Reception to follow.
