Brecht on theatre
Subtitle: the development of an aesthetic
By: edited and translated by John Willett.
Contributors: Willett, John.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Theater.
Other titles: On theatre
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: 1. Frank Wedekind; value: 2. A Reckoning; value: 3. Emphasis on Sport; value: 4. Three Cheers for Shaw; value: 5. Conversation with Bert Brecht; value: 6. A Radio Speech; value: 7. Shouldn't we Abolish Aesthetics?; value: 8. The Epic Theatre and its Difficulties; value: 9. Last Stage: Oedipus; value: 10. A Dialogue about Acting; value: 11. On Form and Subject-Matter; value: 12. An Example of Paedagogics; value: 13. The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre; value: 14. The Literarization of the Theatre; value: 15. The Film, the Novel and Epic Theatre; value: 16. The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication; value: 17. The Question of Criteria for Judging Acting; value: 18. Indirect Impact of the Epic Theatre; value: 19. Interview with an Exile; value: 20. Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction; value: 21. The German Drama: pre-Hitler; value: 22. Criticism of the New York Production of Die Mutter; value: 23. On the Use of Music in an Epic Theatre; value: 24. Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting; value: 25. Notes to Die Rundkopfe und die Spitzkopfe; value: 26. On Gestic Music; value: 27. The Popular and the Realistic.; value: 28. On Rhymeless Verse with Irregular Rhythms; value: 29. The Street Scene; value: 30. On Experimental Theatre; value: 31. New Technique of Acting; value: 32. Two Essays on Unprofessional Acting; value: 33. Notes on the Folk Play; value: 34. Alienation Effects in the Narrative Pictures of the Elder Brueghel; value: 35. A Little Private Tuition for my Friend Max Gorelik; value: 36. Building up a Part: Laughton's Galileo; value: 37. 'Der Messingkauf': an editorial note; value: 38. A Short Organum for the Theatre; value: 39. Masterful Treatment of a Model; value: 40. From the Mother Courage Model; value: 41. Does Use of the Model Restrict the Artist's Freedom?; value: 42. Formal Problems Arising from the Theatre's New Content; value: 43. Stage Design for the Epic Theatre; value: 44. From a Letter to an Actor; value: 45. Some of the Things that can be Learnt from Stanislavsky; value: 46. Theaterarbeit: an editorial note; value: 47. Notes on Erwin Strittmatter's Play Katzgraben; value: 48. Study of the First Scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus; value: 49. Cultural Policy and Academy of Arts.; value: 50. Conversation about being Forced into Empathy; value: 51. Classical Status as an Inhibiting Factor; value: 52. Can the Present-day World be Reproduced by Means of Theatre?; value: 53. Appendices to the 'Short Organum'; value: 54. 'Dialectics in the Theatre': an editorial note; value: 55. Our London Season.