european history

Understanding European history in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , by Brecht and by Montaigne

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Although experiencing a period of expanding intellectual and geographical horizons , European history in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries witnessed , on the whole , a profoundly intolerant age . To clarify our opinion , we must first introduce European history under the literary history of this age . Here , we will display our understanding of European history in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , the one by Brecht or the one by Montaigne as two

br famous authors of the Renaissance age

Herr Bertolt Brecht in relation to European drama and theatre

Anyone who was anyone in Germany and France wrote historical dramas . It is therefore understandable that the poets of inner conflicts , the prophets of the Byronic hero , also emerged as of historical drama and often released the two themes in the same play . The most important condition a historical drama should fulfill when it was to be performed was that should represent history as an all-embracing system and as a force which helps to define identity

Unlike O 'Neil and Pirandello , however , Brecht does not want the spectator to identify or feel empathy with his heroes . In 1922 , he noted in his diary

I hope in Baal and Jungle I 've avoided one common artistic bloomer that of trying to carry people away . Instinctively , I 've kept my distance and ensured that the realization of my .effects remains within bounds . The spectator...