TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murphy, G. Ronald
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.5149/9781469656755_Murphy
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20200623_9781469656755_94
KW  - German studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Theatre and Drama
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/b8723a11-0c67-4e42-8732-cf48271210c6/9781469656755_WEB.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39846
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
PP  - Chapel Hill
PY  - 1980
TI  - Brecht and the Bible : A Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's Drama of Morality and the City
ER  - 
