The Cambridge companion to Brecht / edited by Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thomson, Peter, 1938- editor.

Sacks, Glendyr, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Brecht, Bertolt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 333 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This updated Companion offers students crucial guidance on virtually every aspect of the work of this complex and controversial writer. It brings together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners, and this edition introduces more voices and themes. 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 and on the Lehrstücke. Other essays analyse Brecht's directing, his poetry, his interest in music and his work with actors. This revised edition also contains additional essays on his 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 provocative overview of a writer who constantly aimed to provoke.

Contents:

Brecht's Germany : 1898-1933 / Eve Rosenhaft

Brecht's lives / Peter Thomson

Brecht and cabaret / Oliver Double & Michael Wilson

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

The good person of Szechwan / Christopher Mccullough

Mother courage and her children / Robert Leach

Life of Galileo : between contemplation and the command to participate / Cathy Turner

The Caucasian chalk circle : the view from Europe / Maria Shevtsova

Brecht and the Berliner ensemble

the making of a model / Carl Weber

Revolutionising theatre : Brecht's reinvention of the dramaturg / Mary Luckhurst

Key words in Brecht's theory and the practice of theatre / Peter Brooker

Brecht's poetry / Philip Tomson

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 and film / Martin Brady.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

ISBN:

1-139-81757-4

1-139-00122-1