Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation-effects in directing, acting, and writing, and discusses, among other works, The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, and Galileo. Also included is "A Short Organum for the Theatre," Brecht's most complete exposition of his...
Search in google:
This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation-effects in directing, acting, and writing, and discusses, among other works, The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, and Galileo. Also included is "A Short Organum for the Theatre," Brecht's most complete exposition of his revolutionary philosophy of drama. Translated and edited by John Willett, Brecht on Theater is essential to an understanding of one of the twentieth century's most influential dramatists.
Introduction1Frank Wedekind32A Reckoning43Emphasis on Sport64Three Cheers for Shaw105Conversation with Bert Brecht146A Radio Speech187Shouldn't we Abolish Aesthetics?208The Epic Theatre and its Difficulties229Last Stage: Oedipus2410A Dialogue about Acting2611On Form and Subject-Matter2912An Example of Paedagogics3113The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre3314The Literarization of the Theatre4315The Film, the Novel and Epic Theatre4716The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication5117The Question of Criteria for Judging Acting5318Indirect Impact of the Epic Theatre5719Interview with an Exile6520Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction6921The German Drama: pre-Hitler7722Criticism of the New York Production of Die Mutter8123On the Use of Music in an Epic Theatre8424Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting9125Notes to Die Rundkopfe und die Spitzkopfe10026On Gestic Music10427The Popular and the Realistic10728On Rhymeless Verse with Irregular Rhythms11529The Street Scene12130On Experimental Theatre13031New Technique of Acting13632Two Essays on Unprofessional Acting14833Notes on the Folk Play15334Alienation Effects in the Narrative Pictures of the Elder Brueghel15735A Little Private Tuition for my Friend Max Gorelik15936Building up a Part: Laughton's Galileo16337'Der Messingkauf': an editorial note16938A Short Organum for the Theatre17939Masterful Treatment of a Model20940From the Mother Courage Model21541Does Use of the Model Restrict the Artist's Freedom?22242Formal Problems Arising from the Theatre's New Content22643Stage Design for the Epic Theatre23044From a Letter to an Actor23345Some of the Things that can be Learnt from Stanislavsky23646Theaterarbeit: an editorial note23947Notes on Erwin Strittmatter's Play Katzgraben24748Study of the First Scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus25249Cultural Policy and Academy of Arts26650Conversation about being Forced into Empathy27051Classical Status as an Inhibiting Factor27252Can the Present-day World be Reproduced by Means of Theatre?27453Appendices to the 'Short Organum'27654'Dialectics in the Theatre': an editorial note28155Our London Season283Other English Translations284Index286
