| Description |
xxxii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-292) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: Context and life -- Brecht's Germany : 1898-1933 / Eve Rosenhaft -- Brecht's lives / Peter Thomson -- Part II: The plays -- Brecht's early plays / Tony Meech -- The Threepenny opera / Stephen McNeff -- Brecht's clowns : Man is man and after / Joel Schechter -- Learning for a new society : the Lehrstück / Roswitha Mueller -- Saint Joan of the stockyards / Christopher McCullough -- The Zelda syndrome : Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann / John Fuegi -- The good person of Szechwan : discourse of a masquerade / Elizabeth Wright -- Mother Courage and her children / Robert Leach -- Heavenly food denied : Life of Galileo / Darko Suvin -- The Caucasian chalk circle : the view from Europe / Maria Shevtsova -- Part III: Theories and practices -- Brecht and the Berliner ensemble - the making of a model / Carl Weber -- Key words in Brecht's theory and practice of theatre / Peter Brooker -- Brecht's poetry / Philip Thomson -- Brecht and music : theory and practice / Kim H. Kowalke -- Brecht and stage design : the Bühnenbildner and the Bühnenbauer / Christopher Baugh -- Actors on Brecht / Margaret Eddershaw -- Brecht's legacy / Michael Patterson. |
| Subject |
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.
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| Indexed Term |
German drama. |
| Added Author |
Thomson, Peter, 1938-
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Sacks, Glendyr.
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| ISBN |
0521414466 |
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0521424852 paperback |
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