A guide to the plays of Bertolt Brecht / Stephen Unwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Unwin, Stephen, author.

Series:

Plays and Playwrights.

Plays and Playwrights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956--Criticism and interpretation.

Brecht, Bertolt.

Germany--Social conditions--20th century.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Methuen, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unwin provides a guide to Brecht's plays that will prove useful to the student, teacher and theatre practitioner. Grouping and analysing plays chronologically according to their context Unwin also considers Brecht's theory and looks at his impact and the legacy that he left.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 THE DARK TIMES; 2 BRECHT: PLAYWRIGHT, POET AND ARTIST; 3 POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND A NEW MORALITY; 4 ART AND CULTURE; 5 TOWARDS A MARXIST THEATRE; 6 KEY CONCEPTS OF BRECHA'S THEATRICAL THEORY; 7 STAGING BRECHT; 8 FOUR EARLY PLAYS; Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of the Cities; Man equals Man; 9 TWO MUSIC-THEATRE PIECES AND KURT WEILL; The Threepenny Opera; The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny; 10 MARXISM AND THE THEATRE; Saint Joan of the Stockyards; The Decision; The Mother; 11 OPPOSITION PLAYS; Fear and Misery of the Third Reich.

Seänora Carrar's RiflesThe Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Schweyk in the Second World War; 12 FIVE GREAT PLAYS; Life of Galileo; The Good Person of Szechwan; Mother Courage and her Children; Mr Puntila and his Man Matti; The Caucasian Chalk Circle; 13 A LATE MASTERPIECE; The Days of the Commune; 14 LEGACY; 15 CHRONICLE.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781408150313

140815031X

9781408150320

1408150328

OCLC:

908098948