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The Cambridge companion to Brecht / edited by Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks.
Van Pelt Library PT2603.R397 Z58187 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956--Criticism and interpretation.
- Brecht, Bertolt.
- Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- This updated edition properly retains much that was in the original Companion, but also introduces new voices and themes. It brings together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners and contains new essays on Brecht's 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 thorough overview of a writer who constantly aimed to provoke.
- Contents:
- A note on titles xxvi
- Part I Context and Life
- 1 Brecht's Germany: 1898-1933 / Eve Rosenhaft 3
- 2 Brecht's lives / Peter Thomson 22
- 3 Brecht and cabaret / Oliver Double, Michael Wilson 40
- Part II The Plays
- 4 Brecht's early plays / Tony Meech 65
- 5 The Threepenny Opera / Stephen McNeff 78
- 6 Brecht's clowns: Man is Man and after / Joel Schechter 90
- 7 Learning for a new society: the Lehrstuck / Roswitha Mueller 101
- 8 The Good Person of Szechwan / Christopher McCullough 118
- 9 Mother Courage and Her Children / Robert Leach 132
- 10 Life of Galileo: between contemplation and the command to participate / Cathy Turner 143
- 11 The Caucasian Chalk Circle: the view from Europe / Maria Shevtsova 160
- Part III Theories and Practices
- 12 Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble - the making of a model / Carl Weber 175
- 13 Revolutionising theatre: Brecht's reinvention of the dramaturg / Mary Luckhurst 193
- 14 Key words in Brecht's theory and practice of theatre / Peter Brooker 209
- 15 Brecht's poetry / Philip Thomson 212
- 16 Brecht and music: theory and practice / Kim H. Kowalke 242
- 17 Brecht and stage design: the Buhnenbildner and the Buhnenbauer / Christopher Baugh 259
- 18 Actors on Brecht / Margaret Eddershaw 278
- 19 Brecht and film / Martin Brady 297.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: 1994.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0521857090
- 9780521857093
- 0521673844
- 9780521673846
- OCLC:
- 71347545
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