Who is Charles Laughton, Galileo from Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic and what is their importance? Brecht_on_Theatre:_The_Development_of_an_Aesthetic English & Literature "Charles Laughton

Laughton was a renowned, intense, eccentric British actor whose habit and intention of both immersing himself into a character and presenting both characters and plays within a social context made him an ideal collaborator for Brecht. Galileo, meanwhile, was an outspoken and innovative thinker whose beliefs about the nature of the universe got him condemned by the Catholic Church. This made him, in the minds of both Laughton and Brecht (both outspoken, both innovative, both condemned by the establishment) an ideal subject for the kind of play and