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This selection of Bertolt Brecht's critical writing charts the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics over four decades. The volume demonstrates how the theories of Epic Theatre and Alienation evolved, and contains notes and essays on the staging of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, Galileo and many others of his plays. Also included is A Short Organum for the Theatre, Brecht's most complete statement of his revolutionary philosophy of the theatre. With over 32 pages of photographs of Brecht's productions and workshops, this is a key volume for Literature and Theatre Studies alike. "Admirably translated and annotated ...this book is a source of instruction, enlightenment, even fun" - New York Times
| ISBN | 041338800X | | Pages | 311 | | ISBN13 | 9780413388001
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | A & C Black Publishers Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 306 | | Imprint | Methuen Drama | | Language | English | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | London | | Publication date | 06 Apr 1978 | | Series title | Plays and Playwrights | | Non-book description | "xvii,294p,32p of plates" | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Translator | John Willett | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Library of Congress | PN2037 | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | DEWEY | 792.01 | | Academic level | General, Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Introduction | | | | | | PART ONE 1918-1932 | | | | | | 1 Frank Wedekind | | 3 | | | | 2 A Reckoning | | 4 | | | | 3 Emphasis on Sport | | 6 | | | | 4 Three Cheers for Shaw | | 10 | | | | 5 Conversation with Bert Brecht | | 14 | | | | 6 A Radio Speech | | 18 | | | | 7 Shouldn't we Abolish Aesthetics? | | 20 | | | | 8 The Epic Theatre and its Difficulties | | 22 | | | | 9 Last Stage: Oedipus | | 24 | | | | 10 A Dialogue about Acting | | 26 | | | | 11 On Form and Subject-Matter | | 29 | | | | 12 An Example of Paedagogics | | 31 | | | | 13 The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre | | 33 | | | | 14 The Literarization of the Theatre | | 43 | | | | 15 The Film, the Novel and Epic Theatre | | 41 | | | | 16 The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication | | 51 | | | | 17 The Question of Criteria for Judging Acting | | 53 | | | | 18 Indirect Impact of the Epic Theatre | | 57 | | | | PART TWO 1983-1947 | | | | | | 19 Interview with an Exile | | 65 | | | | 20 Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction | | 69 | | | | 21 The German Drama: pre-Hitler | | 77 | | | | 22 Criticism of the New York Production of Die Mutter | | 81 | | | | 23 On the Use of Music in an Epic Theatre | | 84 | | | | 24 Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting | | 91 | | | | 25 Notes to Die Rundkb)spfe und die Spitzkb)spfe | | 100 | | | | 26 On Gestic Music | | 104 | | | More... | | |
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