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Article: Who really wrote Brecht's plays?
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 7, 1994
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Mention "the authorship question" and war immediately erupts, even
if scoffers usually place the query on the level of "Who's buried in
Grant's tomb?" Up to now, the debate has centered on Shakespeare.
Did the uneducated Will of Stratford-on-Avon really have the smarts
to write 36 plays and a set of lovely sonnets? Or was "Shakespeare"
a pseudonym for (among other candidates) Francis Bacon or Edward de
Vere, the Earl of Oxford? This literary slugfest (it's become that
even with scholars in its midst) has now been upstaged by
well-documented accusations against none other than the German genius
Bertolt Brecht, considered by many the most important playwright of
the 20th century.
Brecht, ...
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