Word: epics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last of the Just, by André Schwarz-Bart. A sprawling, harrowing, quasi-epic novel that follows, often with eloquence, the travails of Europe's Jews from the medieval pogroms to Hitler's crematories...
...Last of the Just, by Andre Schwarz-Bart. A panoramic, quasi-epic novel of Jewish suffering, from medieval pogroms to Nazi crematories, in which the descriptions of martyrdom are eloquent and touching, and answers to the question "What is a Jew?" are largely existential...
...When this 'alienation effect' is successful," Bentley said, "the audience cannot forget that the play is a play," and thus emotional identifications are limited. "This," he concluded, "is why epic theater represents the most 'adult' drama conceivable...
Eric Bentley, at the University for the year while on leave from Columbia, where he is Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature, is a forty-four year old Englishman whose name is intertwined with that of Bertolt Brecht. Through his translations, and explanations of the complex Brechtian theories of epic drama, he has been chiefly responsible for the German playwright's recent surge of popularity. An anthologizer, translator, producer, and director, Bentley today looms as one of the most respected and acute commentators on the theatrical scene...
...might expect, he is gratified by the new interest in Brecht. Bentley had foreseen the re-examination of epic theater techniques in 1955, and is extremely pleased when on campus after campus he is questioned incessantly on Brecht's theatrical contributions. "People might think that a playwright is not popular until he is successful on Broadway," he observes, "but the student, interest, after all, reflects a real popularity. And when you think about it, Ibsen never was successful on Broadway; nor Strindberg; nor many truly great authors...