The Cambridge Companion to Brecht
2nd Edition
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Part of Cambridge Companions to Literature
- Editors:
- Peter Thomson, University of Exeter
- Glendyr Sacks, University of Exeter
- Date Published: December 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521857093
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This updated Companion offers students crucial guidance on virtually every aspect of the work of this complex and controversial writer. It brings together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners, and this edition introduces more voices and themes. The opening essays place Brecht's creative work in its historical and biographical context and are followed by chapters on single texts, from The Threepenny Opera to The Caucasian Chalk Circle, on some early plays and on the Lehrstücke. Other essays analyse Brecht's directing, his poetry, his interest in music and his work with actors. This revised edition also contains additional essays on his early experience of cabaret, his significance in the development of film theory and his unique approach to dramaturgy. A detailed calendar of Brecht's life and work and a selective bibliography of English criticism complete this provocative overview of a writer who constantly aimed to provoke.
Read more- Nineteen essays by leading scholars cover a wide range of subjects, including individual plays, Brecht's poetry and his contributions to dramatic theory and film
- This updated edition includes new thinking and approaches to Brecht's work
- Includes an annotated bibliography with suggestions for further reading
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: December 2006
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521857093
- length: 368 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.71kg
- contains: 30 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
A Brecht calendar Glendyr Sacks
Preface
Part I. Context and Life:
1. Brecht's Germany:
1898-1933 Eve Rosenhaft
2. Brecht's Lives Peter Thomson
3. Brecht and cabaret Oliver Double and Michael Wilson
Part II. The Plays:
4. Brecht's early plays Tony Meech
5. The Threepenny Opera Stephen McNeff
6. Brecht's clowns: Man is Man and after Joel Schechter
7. Learning for a new society: the Lehrstück Roswitha Mueller
8. The Good Person of Szechwan Christopher McCullough
9. Mother Courage and Her Children Robert Leach
10. Life of Galileo: between contemplation and the command to participate Catherine Turner
11. The Caucasian Chalk Circle: the view from Europe Maria Shevtsova
Part III. Theories and Practices:
12. Brecht and the Berliner ensemble - the making of a model Carl Weber
13. Revolutionising theatre: Brecht's reinvention of the dramaturgy Mary Luckhurst
14. Key words in Brecht's theory and practice of theatre Peter Brooker
15. Brecht's poetry Philip Thomson
16. Brecht and music: theory and practice Kim H. Kowalke
17. Brecht and stage design: the Bühnenbuildner and the Bühnenbauer Christopher Baugh
18. Actors on Brecht Margaret Eddershaw
19. Brecht and film Martin Brady
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