Abstract:This article considers the applicability of Bertolt Brecht’s most radical formal innovation, the Lehrstück or learning play, to a play that is neither written in the Brechtian tradition nor ostensibly a Lehrstück itself. J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls (1944) is a popular play often considered “political” by reviewers, yet it proposes no fundamental change to the political landscape its seeks to critique. Brecht’s Lehrstück, which dissolves the boundary between actor and spectator, offers a different mode … Show more
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