Brecht sourcebook / / edited by Carol Martin and Henry Bial

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Disciplina: 832/.912
• Soggetto topico: German literature
• Altri autori: MartinCarol <1952-> BialHenry <1970->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Brecht sourcebook
• ISBN: 1-134-63710-1; 0-203-97955-9; 1-134-63711-X; 1-280-15121-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826304803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Worlds of performance.