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Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation-effects, Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic has a rating of 3.5 stars
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Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation-effects, Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
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  • Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
  • Written by author John Willett
  • Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 1964
  • This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation-effects
  • This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation-effects
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Introduction
1Frank Wedekind3
2A Reckoning4
3Emphasis on Sport6
4Three Cheers for Shaw10
5Conversation with Bert Brecht14
6A Radio Speech18
7Shouldn't we Abolish Aesthetics?20
8The Epic Theatre and its Difficulties22
9Last Stage: Oedipus24
10A Dialogue about Acting26
11On Form and Subject-Matter29
12An Example of Paedagogics31
13The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre33
14The Literarization of the Theatre43
15The Film, the Novel and Epic Theatre47
16The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication51
17The Question of Criteria for Judging Acting53
18Indirect Impact of the Epic Theatre57
19Interview with an Exile65
20Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction69
21The German Drama: pre-Hitler77
22Criticism of the New York Production of Die Mutter81
23On the Use of Music in an Epic Theatre84
24Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting91
25Notes to Die Rundkopfe und die Spitzkopfe100
26On Gestic Music104
27The Popular and the Realistic107
28On Rhymeless Verse with Irregular Rhythms115
29The Street Scene121
30On Experimental Theatre130
31New Technique of Acting136
32Two Essays on Unprofessional Acting148
33Notes on the Folk Play153
34Alienation Effects in the Narrative Pictures of the Elder Brueghel157
35A Little Private Tuition for my Friend Max Gorelik159
36Building up a Part: Laughton's Galileo163
37'Der Messingkauf': an editorial note169
38A Short Organum for the Theatre179
39Masterful Treatment of a Model209
40From the Mother Courage Model215
41Does Use of the Model Restrict the Artist's Freedom?222
42Formal Problems Arising from the Theatre's New Content226
43Stage Design for the Epic Theatre230
44From a Letter to an Actor233
45Some of the Things that can be Learnt from Stanislavsky236
46Theaterarbeit: an editorial note239
47Notes on Erwin Strittmatter's Play Katzgraben247
48Study of the First Scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus252
49Cultural Policy and Academy of Arts266
50Conversation about being Forced into Empathy270
51Classical Status as an Inhibiting Factor272
52Can the Present-day World be Reproduced by Means of Theatre?274
53Appendices to the 'Short Organum'276
54'Dialectics in the Theatre': an editorial note281
55Our London Season283
Other English Translations284
Index286


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