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

Call Number
832./912
Title
The Cambridge companion to Brecht / edited by Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxviii, 333 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Cambridge companions to literature
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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.
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.
Added Author
Thomson, Peter, 1938- editor.
Sacks, Glendyr, editor.
Subject
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 Criticism and interpretation.
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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.
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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.
Subject
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 Criticism and interpretation.
Multimedia