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- Title
Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage And Her Children in the Light of Rasa Theory.
- Authors
Basiya, Rajesh V.
- Abstract
Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her children (1939) has been accepted universally as one of the significant plays of the 20th century. Though a few critics considered the play for its optimistic ending, a social document, in the west people treated the play as a traditional tragedy. Courage and Her children is an antiwar play which had a topical urgency in its time and has subsequently acquired universal human appeal. Courage and Her children is a tale of a business woman struggling to survive in wartime. Brecht pioneered an unconventional experimental theatre movement called 'epic theatre.' He wanted to make the spectator an observer detaching him from 'make believe' involvemet. This paper attempts to study the play in the light of Rasa theory of Bharatamuni. The overall pitiable picture of the play arouses our sentiments of grief. The play portrays the story dominantly with Karuna rasa. The sympathetic responses the situation evokes in the spectators make Karuna as the main rasa of the play.
- Subjects
MOTHER Courage &; Her Children (Play : Brecht); BRECHT, Bertolt, 1898-1956; DRAMATISTS; EPIC theater (Modern drama); RASA literature
- Publication
Language in India, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 5, p473
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article