Brecht sourcebook / edited by Carol Martin and Henry Bial.
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 Brec...
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Routledge,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Brecht's Aesthetic Theories
- 1. On Chinese Acting / Bertolt Brecht
- 2. Theatre for Learning / Bertolt Brecht
- 3. Epic Theatre Catechism / Mordecai Gorelik
- 4. Are Stanislavsky and Brecht Commensurable? / Eric Bentley
- 5. Brecht's Concept of Gestus and the American Performance Tradition / Carl Weber
- 6. Beyond Bourgeois Theatre / Jean-Paul Sartre
- pt. II Brecht's Theories in Practice
- 7. Gestus in Music / Kurt Weill
- 8. Composing for BB: Some Comments / Paul Dessau
- 9. Actors on Brecht: The Munich Years / W. Stuart McDowell
- 10. Bertolt Brecht's J.B. / Lee Baxandall
- 11. Baden Lehrstuck / Bertolt Brecht
- 12. Beggar or The Dead Dog / Bertolt Brecht
- 13. Dialectics of Galileo / Ernst Schumacher
- 14. Dispute Over the Valley: An Essay on Bertolt Brecht's Play The Caucasian Chalk Circle / Hans-Joachim Bunge
- 15. Prologue to The Caucasian Chalk Circle / Bertolt Brecht
- pt. III Brecht Interpreted Abroad
- 16. Brecht and the English Theatre / Martin Esslin
- 17. Death of Mother Courage / Henry Glade
- 18. Brecht and Chicano Theatre / Barclay Goldsmith
- 19. Brecht and Latin America's "Theatre of Revolution" / Diana Taylor
- 20. Political Displacements: Toward Historicizing Brecht in Japan, 1932-1998 / Tadashi Uchino
- 21. Actor's Involvement: Notes on Brecht
- An Interview with Joseph Chaikin / Erika Munk
- 22. Brechtian Theory and American Feminist Theatre / Karen Laughlin
- 23. Brecht, Feminism, and Chinese Theatre / Carol Martin.