"Rude Mechanicals and the Specters of Marx"

Abstract

In the above excerpt from Brecht's poem, the laughter of the stage hands suggests they know the difference between an actor and a king. But just what is the status of those ironic commentators vis-à-vis the stage? In what terms is it possible to bring them into a theoretical discourse on the nature of theatre?

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