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Gardiner John Eliot
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John Willett
This study of Brecht’s theatre, first published in 1959, traces his stylistic development as a playwright and stage director through each of his major plays and explains his evolving notion…
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John J. White,Ann White
Detailed analysis of Brecht’s extensive theoretical writings on the theater, including newly available works.
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John Fuegi
This is a full-length study of Bertolt Brecht’s day-to-day work as a theatre director. Professor Fuegi has researched how Brecht worked and reacted with actors how his productions were actually…
Bertolt Brecht
(Study Score). Based on the text in the Kurt Weill Edition (Ser. I, Vol. 5). Includes historical notes.
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Written between 1939-1942 The Messingkauf Dialogues are among the most concise, witty and light-hearted of all Brecht’s theoretical discussions of theatre.
Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th-century innovators in theatre - the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky - and Germany’s greatest poet of the…
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John Milfull
A revision of the author’s thesis, Sydney, 1967.
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J.S. BACH Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 St Matthew Passion BWV 244 St John Passion BWV 245 Mass in B minor BWV 232 Magnificat in D…
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Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers…
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary…
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Michael John T Gilbert
Not long after Bertolt Brecht’s death in 1956, his musical collaborator of many years, Hanns Eisler, characterized Brecht’s attitude toward music with a mixture of admiration and skepticism as dieses…
In Methuen Drama’s Modern Classics series, this edition of Brecht’s anti-war masterpiece translated by John Willett features an extensive introduction and Brecht’s notes and textual variants.
Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht’s best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This new translation by Michael…
Repackaged and reissued, this is Brecht’s classic parable, set in an unjust society where good can only survive by means of evil. It is accompanied by Brecht’s own notes and…
One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century (Observer)
One of Brecht’s most famous plays and a classic of modern literature/theatre, this Student Edition features a comprehensive introduction, commentary and study aids besides the full text of the play.
A new paperback edition of what is arguably Brecht’s finest comedy, featuring an extensive introduction and commentary and Brecht’s own notes.
A Student Edition of Brecht’s series of inter-connected playlets that describes events which took place in German households under the rise of the Nazis. The text of the play is…
One of a series of eight, this volume features the plays Man Equals Man, The Elephant Calf, The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, and…
This play depicts the Renaissance scientist Galilei Galileo in a brutal struggle for freedom from authoritarian dogma. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo comes in conflict with…
In John Willett’s translation, this edition contains expert notes on the author’s life and work, historical and political background to the play, photographs from stage productions and a glossary of…
One of a series of eight, this volume features the plays The Good Person of Szechwan, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and Mr Puntila and his Man Matti. It…
In this new translation by the distinguished Scottish poet Tom Leonard of Brecht’s great 1939 anti-war play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, Mother Courage is a working-class woman from the…
Repackaged and reissued, this is Brecht’s classic interpretation of John Gay’s The Beggars Opera. It is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, married with…
Set in a mythical Chicago, Saint Joan of the Stockyards tells the story of a Salvation Army lieutenant who challenges the power of Pierpoint Mauler, the meat king. The play…
This volume brings together two of Brecht’s most studied and performed plays: Life of Galileo and Mother Courage and Her Children together with full editorial apparatus and Brecht’s own notes…
This text is Brecht’s series of 24 inter-connected playlets that describe events which took place in German households before his own exile in 1936. They describe the suspicion and anxiety…
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Deceased Bertolt Brecht
A wholly revised, re-edited and expanded edition of one of the seminal texts of twentieth century theatre. Featuring new translations, additional texts, illustrations and editorial matter, this is a fullest…
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A selection of Brecht’s principal writings for directors and theatre practitioners –Page 4 of cover.
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