Description |
xxxii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Series |
Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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Contents |
Part I: Context and life -- Brecht's Germany : 1898-1933 / Eve Rosenhaft -- Brecht's lives / Peter Thomson -- Part II: The plays -- Brecht's early plays / Tony Meech -- The Threepenny opera / Stephen McNeff -- Brecht's clowns : Man is man and after / Joel Schechter -- Learning for a new society : the Lehrstück / Roswitha Mueller -- Saint Joan of the stockyards / Christopher McCullough -- The Zelda syndrome : Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann / John Fuegi -- The good person of Szechwan : discourse of a masquerade / Elizabeth Wright -- Mother Courage and her children / Robert Leach -- Heavenly food denied : Life of Galileo / Darko Suvin -- The Caucasian chalk circle : the view from Europe / Maria Shevtsova -- Part III: Theories and practices -- Brecht and the Berliner ensemble - the making of a model / Carl Weber -- Key words in Brecht's theory and practice of theatre / Peter Brooker -- Brecht's poetry / Philip Thomson -- Brecht and music : theory and practice / Kim H. Kowalke -- Brecht and stage design : the Bühnenbildner and the Bühnenbauer / Christopher Baugh -- Actors on Brecht / Margaret Eddershaw -- Brecht's legacy / Michael Patterson |
Summary |
This Companion offers students crucial guidance on virtually every aspect of the work of this complex and controversial writer, bringing together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners. 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, on the Lehrstücke and on the neglected contribution of Elisabeth Hauptmann to the Brecht canon. The third group of essays analyse Brecht's directing, his theatrical theories, his poetry, his interest in music, his significant collaboration with stage designers and his work with actors, concluding with an assessment of Brecht's continuing influence on theatre practice. 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 |
Analysis |
German drama |
Notes |
M copy is 1997 reprint |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-292) and index |
Notes |
English |
Subject |
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Critique et interprétation
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Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.
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Author |
Sacks, Glendyr.
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Thomson, Peter, 1938-
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LC no. |
93018181 |
ISBN |
0521414466 |
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0521424852 (paperback) |
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