The significance of historicalization to both the form and the content of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls

David Barnett points out that “historicization is a form of Verfremdung in that it makes the familiar strange” (http://brechtinpractice.org/theory/historicization/). Taking Barnett’s remark as a starting point, write an essay discussing the significance of historicization to both the form and the content of Top Girls