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Brecht sourcebook / edited by Carol Martin and Henry Bial.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Worlds of performance.
- Worlds of performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956--Criticism and interpretation.
- Brecht, Bertolt.
- German literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bertolt Brecht is one of the most prolific and influential writer-directors of the twentieth century. This fascinating anthology brings together in one volume many of the most important articles written about Brecht between 1957 and 1997. The collection explores a wide range of viewpoints about Brecht's theatre theories and practice, as well as including three plays not otherwise available in English: The Beggar or The Dead Dog, Baden Lehrstuck and The Seven Deadly Sins of the Lower Middle Class. Editors Martin and Bial have brought together a unique compendium which cove
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 On Chinese Acting; 2 Theatre for Learning; 3 An Epic Theatre Catechism; 4 Are Stanislavsky and Brecht Commensurable?; 5 Brecht's Concept of Gestus and the American Performance Tradion; 6 Beyond Bourgeois Theatre; 7 Gestus in Music; 8 Composing for BB; 9 Actors on Brecht: The Munich Years; 10 Bertolt Brecht's J.B.; 11 Baden Lehrstück; 12 The Beggar or The Dead Dog; 13 The Dialectics of Galileo; 14 The Dispute Over the Valley; 15 Prologue to The Caucasian Chalk Circle; 16 Brecht and the English Theatre; 17 The Death of Mother Courage
- 18 Brecht and Chicano Theatre19 Brecht and Latin America's "Theatre of Revolution"; 20 Political Displacements; 21 The Actor's Involvement; 22 Brechtian Theory and American Feminist Theatre; 23 Brecht, Feminism, and Chinese Theatre; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-63710-1
- 0-203-97955-9
- 1-134-63711-X
- 1-280-15121-8
- 9780203979556
- OCLC:
- 466448945
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