Brecht; a collection of critical essays.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Demetz, Peter, 1922- editor.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Twentieth century views

A Spectrum book ; S-TC-11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.

Brecht, Bertolt.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

186 pages ; 21 cm.

Summary:

Brecht's theory of the stage - world-famous today, but all two often misunderstood - is contrasted with the rules of classic theater and the Method of Stanislawsky.

Contents:

Bert Brecht / Sergey Tretiakov

From the testimony of Bertold Brecht / hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities

The poet Bertolt Brecht / Hannah Arendt

On Brecht's In the swamp, A man's a man, and Saint Joan of the stockyards / Eric Bentley

Contemporary theater and aesthetic distance / Oscar Büdel

Piscator's political theater / Ernst Schumacher

On the artistic originality of Bertolt Brecht's drama / I. Fradkin

Brecht's dramatic theory / Hans Egon Holthusen

Brecht's Galileo / Günter Rohrmoser

Brecht's split characters and his sense of the tragic / Walter H. Sokel

Mother Courage and her children / Franz Norbert Mennemeier

On Brecht's The Caucasian chalk circle / Ronald Gray

Brecht: the music / John Willett

Brecht's language and its sources / Martin Esslin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Storage copy is gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

Other Format:

Online version: Demetz, Peter, 1922- Brecht.

OCLC:

965021