This Companion offers students crucial guidance on Brecht's theatrical career from beginning to end, bringing together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners to offer a provocative overview. The nineteen newly-commissioned essays place Brecht's creative work in its historical and biographical context, with separate essays on seven major plays, on the poetry, the theatrical theories, the use of music, the innovations in stage design, the ways of working with actors and his hugely influential career with the Berliner Ensemble.
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Nineteen newly-commissioned essays place Brecht's creative work in its critical, biographical and historical context, through essays on seven major plays, poetry, the theater, and use of music, as well as his influential career with the Berliner Ensemble.
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This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to Brecht (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (Paperback)
The problem with delivering Brecht to an English student audience is the fact that he is such a man of his time, culturally and historically, that the first few lectures end up being as much about 'Sturm und Drang', the Weimer republic and the rise of fascism, as they do about any theory by our Bertie. This wonderfully concise and pragmatic guide has been a real find. Dealing with the magor Brechtian themes and theories in a way that applies them both practically and with due reference to their historical/cultural significance. A real 'must buy' for students and teachers of drama!
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The only one among all of them who really struck me was Brecht, thanks to his proletarian costume. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mother Courage, Shen Te, Berliner Ensemble, Bertolt Brecht, New York, Saint Joan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Galy Gay, The Measures Taken, Caspar Neher, Elisabeth Hauptmann, Helene Weigel, Eric Bentley, Ernst Busch, John Willett, Kurt Weill, East Berlin, The Beggar's Opera, Walter Benjamin, East German, Harms Eisler, Life of Galileo, Peter Lorre, Second World War, Soviet Union New!
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The only one among all of them who really struck me was Brecht, thanks to his proletarian costume. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
social gest, epic theatre, chalk circle, theatre practitioners, theatre practice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mother Courage, Shen Te, Berliner Ensemble, Bertolt Brecht, New York, Saint Joan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Galy Gay, The Measures Taken, Caspar Neher, Elisabeth Hauptmann, Helene Weigel, Eric Bentley, Ernst Busch, John Willett, Kurt Weill, East Berlin, The Beggar's Opera, Walter Benjamin, East German, Harms Eisler, Life of Galileo, Peter Lorre, Second World War, Soviet Union New!
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- The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht on 39 pages
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht on 28 pages
- Drums in the Night (Bertolt Brecht Collected Plays, Vol 1, Pt 1) by Bertolt Brecht on 14 pages
- Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht on 9 pages
- Brecht Collected Plays: 1: Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays (World Classics) (Vol 1) by Bertolt Brecht on 7 pages
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- Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre) by Mary Luckhurst on 5 pages
- Brecht: Mother Courage and her Children (Plays in Production) by Peter Thomson on 4 pages
- Bertolt Brecht. Centenary Essays. (German Monitor 41) by Steve Prof. Giles on page 18, page 226, and Back Matter
- Twentieth Century Actor Training by Alison Hodge in Front Matter, page 112, and page 126
- The Literature of Satire by Charles A. Knight in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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