Character, Ideology, and Symbolism in the Plays of Wedekind, Sternheim, Kaiser, Toller, and Brecht

Abstract

Gonçalves da Silva studies a range of expressionist playwrights who transformed German drama in the twentieth century: from Frank Wedekind, who grew up in a Swiss castle, became an actor and was imprisoned for satirical poetry, to Bertholt Brecht, who passed from Weimar Germany to exile and then establishment in East Germany. This book, originally published in paperback in 1985 under the ISBN 978-0-947623-00-5, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme.