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This paper discusses the criticism of realism in drama by Gertrude Stein and Bertolt Brecht in relation to Stein's play "Dr. Faustus Lights the Light" and August Strindberg's "The Ghost Sonata".

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"Stein begins her critique by stating that there is a fundamental problem between the actors and the audience that is represented by the curtain itself. "In the first place at the theater there is the curtain and the curtain already makes one feel that one is not going to have the same tempo as the thing that is there behind the curtain" (Gobert 42). In contrast to the detailed and extensive stage and background directions in "The Ghost Sonata", there are none so elaborate in "Dr. Faustus Lights the Light"."

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