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…by a firing squad, and Antigone (1917), a pacifist-slanted interpretation of Sophocles’ play. In his best-known work, Die Menschen (1918; “Humanity”), Expressionist techniques are carried to an extreme form. The characters are symbolic types, speech is reduced to staccato monosyllables, and meaning is conveyed by pantomime and stylized overacting. Later,…
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