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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826304803321

Titolo

Brecht sourcebook / / edited by Carol Martin and Henry Bial

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-63710-1

0-203-97955-9

1-134-63711-X

1-280-15121-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Worlds of performance

Altri autori (Persone)

MartinCarol <1952->

BialHenry <1970->

Disciplina

832/.912

Soggetti

German literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 On Chinese Acting; 2 Theatre for Learning; 3 An Epic Theatre Catechism; 4 Are Stanislavsky and Brecht Commensurable?; 5 Brecht's Concept of Gestus and the American Performance Tradion; 6 Beyond Bourgeois Theatre; 7 Gestus in Music; 8 Composing for BB; 9 Actors on Brecht: The Munich Years; 10 Bertolt Brecht's J.B.; 11 Baden Lehrstück; 12 The Beggar or The Dead Dog; 13 The Dialectics of Galileo; 14 The Dispute Over the Valley; 15 Prologue to The Caucasian Chalk Circle; 16 Brecht and the English Theatre; 17 The Death of Mother Courage

18 Brecht and Chicano Theatre19 Brecht and Latin America's "Theatre of Revolution"; 20 Political Displacements; 21 The Actor's Involvement; 22 Brechtian Theory and American Feminist Theatre; 23 Brecht, Feminism, and Chinese Theatre; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 Brecht's theatre theories and practice, as well as including three plays not otherwise available in English: The Beggar or The Dead Dog, Baden Lehrstuck and The Seven Deadly Sins of the



Lower Middle Class. Editors Martin and Bial have brought together a unique compendium which cove