[lbo-talk] Brecht

[Sean Andrews]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 22:20, andie nachgeborenen
<andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> "Why is Shakespeare so frequently revived? He was an opportunist whose mission it was to peddle an ideology -- Tudor supremacy -- that is so obscure that you need a graduate degree in European history to know what it is, and which is not even alive even to be defunct. His theories, if he had any, replicate conventional attitudes of his time that we find  patronising and dated. Yet
>> > he could create memorable characters and rich
>> opportunities for actors,
>> > tell a gripping story, and raise concerns that are
>> still pertinent
> .....

andie, haven't seen anything from you in a while--this is a perfect
re-entry.  Nicely put.

s