Re: [Marxism] Mozart, Da Ponte, revolution

["Jacob Levich" <jlevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Depends on whether or not it's done intelligently. Some counterexamples that
spring to mind: Orson Welles' 1938 modern-dress Julius Caesar (you can hear
a radio version of this on the Web at http://www.mercurytheatre.info/),
which by most accounts worked brilliantly as an attack on fascism, and of
course Brecht's updating of John Gay's Beggar's Opera. (Brecht's Coriolanus
revamp is supposed to be terrific, though I suppose that doesn't count as a
_direct_ transposition of a historical conflict)

Jake




From: "Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> directly transposing an historic conflict
> into another society doesn't work so well.



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