Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.
Brecht on theatre : the development of an aesthetic / [Textbook] edited and translated by John Willett. - New York : London : Methuen, Hill and Wang ; 1992. - 294 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm. cb#3 - Methuen paperback . - Methuen paperback. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frank Wedekind -- A Reckoning -- Emphasis on Sport -- Three Cheers for Shaw -- Conversation with Bert Brecht -- A Radio Speech -- Shouldn't we Abolish Aesthetics? -- The Epic Theatre and its Difficulties -- Last Stage: Oedipus -- A Dialogue about Acting -- On Form and Subject-Matter -- An Example of Paedagogics -- The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre -- The Literarization of the Theatre -- The Film, the Novel and Epic Theatre -- The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication -- The Question of Criteria for Judging Acting -- Indirect Impact of the Epic Theatre -- Interview with an Exile -- Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction -- The German Drama: pre-Hitler -- Criticism of the New York Production of Die Mutter -- On the Use of Music in an Epic Theatre -- Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting -- Notes to Die Rundkopfe und die Spitzkopfe -- On Gestic Music -- The Popular and the Realistic -- On Rhymeless Verse with Irregular Rhythms -- The Street Scene -- On Experimental Theatre -- New Technique of Acting -- Two Essays on Unprofessional Acting -- Notes on the Folk Play -- Alienation Effects in the Narrative Pictures of the Elder Brueghel -- A Little Private Tuition for my Friend Max Gorelik -- Building up a Part: Laughton's Galileo -- 'Der Messingkauf': an editorial note -- A Short Organum for the Theatre -- Masterful Treatment of a Model -- From the Mother Courage Model -- Does Use of the Model Restrict the Artist's Freedom? -- Formal Problems Arising from the Theatre's New Content -- Stage Design for the Epic Theatre -- From a Letter to an Actor -- Some of the Things that can be Learnt from Stanislavsky -- Theaterarbeit: an editorial note -- Notes on Erwin Strittmatter's Play Katzgraben -- Study of the First Scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus -- Cultural Policy and Academy of Arts -- Conversation about being Forced into Empathy -- Classical Status as an Inhibiting Factor -- Can the Present-day World be Reproduced by Means of Theatre? -- Appendices to the 'Short Organum' -- 'Dialectics in the Theatre': an editorial note -- Our London Season. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
0809005425 (pbk.) 9780809005420 (pbk.)
Theater.
PN2021 / .B68 1992g
Brecht on theatre : the development of an aesthetic / [Textbook] edited and translated by John Willett. - New York : London : Methuen, Hill and Wang ; 1992. - 294 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm. cb#3 - Methuen paperback . - Methuen paperback. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frank Wedekind -- A Reckoning -- Emphasis on Sport -- Three Cheers for Shaw -- Conversation with Bert Brecht -- A Radio Speech -- Shouldn't we Abolish Aesthetics? -- The Epic Theatre and its Difficulties -- Last Stage: Oedipus -- A Dialogue about Acting -- On Form and Subject-Matter -- An Example of Paedagogics -- The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre -- The Literarization of the Theatre -- The Film, the Novel and Epic Theatre -- The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication -- The Question of Criteria for Judging Acting -- Indirect Impact of the Epic Theatre -- Interview with an Exile -- Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction -- The German Drama: pre-Hitler -- Criticism of the New York Production of Die Mutter -- On the Use of Music in an Epic Theatre -- Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting -- Notes to Die Rundkopfe und die Spitzkopfe -- On Gestic Music -- The Popular and the Realistic -- On Rhymeless Verse with Irregular Rhythms -- The Street Scene -- On Experimental Theatre -- New Technique of Acting -- Two Essays on Unprofessional Acting -- Notes on the Folk Play -- Alienation Effects in the Narrative Pictures of the Elder Brueghel -- A Little Private Tuition for my Friend Max Gorelik -- Building up a Part: Laughton's Galileo -- 'Der Messingkauf': an editorial note -- A Short Organum for the Theatre -- Masterful Treatment of a Model -- From the Mother Courage Model -- Does Use of the Model Restrict the Artist's Freedom? -- Formal Problems Arising from the Theatre's New Content -- Stage Design for the Epic Theatre -- From a Letter to an Actor -- Some of the Things that can be Learnt from Stanislavsky -- Theaterarbeit: an editorial note -- Notes on Erwin Strittmatter's Play Katzgraben -- Study of the First Scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus -- Cultural Policy and Academy of Arts -- Conversation about being Forced into Empathy -- Classical Status as an Inhibiting Factor -- Can the Present-day World be Reproduced by Means of Theatre? -- Appendices to the 'Short Organum' -- 'Dialectics in the Theatre': an editorial note -- Our London Season. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
0809005425 (pbk.) 9780809005420 (pbk.)
Theater.
PN2021 / .B68 1992g