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oapen-20.500.12657-398462020-06-24T00:48:15Z Brecht and the Bible Murphy, G. Ronald German studies Literature Theatre and Drama bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays & playwrights This study identifies the underlying patterns of persistent biblical allusion in the work of renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht. Rather than reducing Brecht's use of the Bible to the purely satirical, the author interprets the full dramatic function of Brecht's complex use of scripture. Using examples from plays written throughout the span of Brecht's career, Murphy shows how Brecht invokes the stories of Old Testament figures such as Job and Isaiah as well as the crucifixion accounts of the New Testament in order to build sympathetic characters and explore his more political themes. 2020-06-23T07:40:39Z 2020-06-23T07:40:39Z 1980 book ONIX_20200623_9781469656755_94 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39846 eng UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781469656755_WEB.pdf https://uncpress.org/book/9781469656748/brecht-and-the-bible/ University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469656755_Murphy 10.5149/9781469656755_Murphy 29b4cf74-8c0a-422f-9d27-e862ca722861 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 0cdc3d7c-5c59-49ed-9dba-ad641acd8fd1 96 122 Chapel Hill [grantnumber unknown] [grantnumber unknown] Humanities Open Book Program Humanities Open Book Program National Endowment for the Humanities NEH Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation open access
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This study identifies the underlying patterns of persistent biblical allusion in the work of renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht. Rather than reducing Brecht's use of the Bible to the purely satirical, the author interprets the full dramatic function of Brecht's complex use of scripture. Using examples from plays written throughout the span of Brecht's career, Murphy shows how Brecht invokes the stories of Old Testament figures such as Job and Isaiah as well as the crucifixion accounts of the New Testament in order to build sympathetic characters and explore his more political themes.
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