Comparison between Shaw�s and Brecht�s treatment of political consciousness

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dc.contributor.authorSadia Riaz
dc.contributor.authorRida Sarfraz
dc.contributor.authorFarhan Ebadat Yar Khan
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-13T11:29:11Z
dc.date.available2015-11-13T11:29:11Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThe German Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) and the Englishman George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) were socially and politically active, innovative, progressive, radical, controversial, and “problem” playwrights who wrote in tradition of political theatre. Most active during the first half of the Twentieth Century, both were revolutionary social critics who shocked their contemporaries with the unpopular activist philosophies of their plays and other writings. Their political philosophies stemmed from the same fount of Marxism. Brecht adopted communism and Shaw espoused socialism. In their dramatic works, their political consciousness reflects in their dramatic characterization, thematic concerns, and stylistic organization and devices. This paper aims at examining the treatment of political consciousness in these master political playwrights of political consciousness through comparison and analysis of their art of characterization, thematic patterns, and dramaturgical techniques. Interestingly, their characters become their mouth pieces by manifesting their creators’ political conscious through ironic tone or through morally negative consequences of the idealist behaviour of their heroines. Moreover, both cloak their political thematic patterns in dramatic devices which will also come under scrutiny. However, they were different temperamentally which somehow shaped their respective dramatic visions and intentions somewhat differently.en_US
dc.identifier.citation1. Riaz, S., Sarfraz, R., & Khan, F. E. Y. (2015). Comparison between Shaw’s and Brecht’s Treatment of Political Consciousness. Language in India, 15(6).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/1606
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherLanguage in Indiaen_US
dc.publisherLanguage in Indiaen_US
dc.subjectBertolt Brechten_US
dc.subjectGeorge Bernard Shawen_US
dc.subjectconsciousness in creative writingen_US
dc.subjectComparisonen_US
dc.titleComparison between Shaw�s and Brecht�s treatment of political consciousnessen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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