A guide to the plays of Bertolt Brecht / / Stephen Unwin

• Autore: Unwin Stephen
• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : Methuen, , 2005; London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 832.912
• Soggetto topico: Literary studies: plays & playwrights
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Social conditions 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 THE DARK TIMES; 2 BRECHT: PLAYWRIGHT, POET AND ARTIST; 3 POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND A NEW MORALITY; 4 ART AND CULTURE; 5 TOWARDS A MARXIST THEATRE; 6 KEY CONCEPTS OF BRECHA'S THEATRICAL THEORY; 7 STAGING BRECHT; 8 FOUR EARLY PLAYS; Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of the Cities; Man equals Man; 9 TWO MUSIC-THEATRE PIECES AND KURT WEILL; The Threepenny Opera; The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny; 10 MARXISM AND THE THEATRE; Saint Joan of the Stockyards; The Decision; The Mother; 11 OPPOSITION PLAYS; Fear and Misery of the Third Reich. ; Seänora Carrar's RiflesThe Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Schweyk in the Second World War; 12 FIVE GREAT PLAYS; Life of Galileo; The Good Person of Szechwan; Mother Courage and her Children; Mr Puntila and his Man Matti; The Caucasian Chalk Circle; 13 A LATE MASTERPIECE; The Days of the Commune; 14 LEGACY; 15 CHRONICLE.
• Sommario/riassunto: Unwin provides a guide to Brecht's plays that will prove useful to the student, teacher and theatre practitioner. Grouping and analysing plays chronologically according to their context Unwin also considers Brecht's theory and looks at his impact and the legacy that he left.
• Titolo autorizzato: A guide to the plays of Bertolt Brecht
• ISBN: 1-4081-5031-X; 1-4081-5032-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819426903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Plays and Playwrights.