Anarchism in the Dramas of Ernst Toller

Several years after Alfred Jarry's Ubu legacy, Dada abruptly erupted. More than just an antagonistic de-evolution into baby talk and probably more fun than riding a hobby horse, Dada surfaced on the war-era wave with a fresh irrationality, contaminating the minds of a whole generation of artists much to the gathering's delight. Though Dada is now widely acknowledged as one of the major founts of modern avant-garde drama and the direct forerunner to Surrealism and other extensions of the Theatre of the Absurd, few if any dramatic surveys (or their glossaries) mention Dada at all. This hardly seems fair, after all, when it is Dada's petulant anarchism which allowed radical playwrights like Jean Genet to carry the torch to a higher level of social anarchism decades later. In part, then, this survey hopes to repair such an oversight.

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Anarchism in the Dramas of Ernst Toller

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