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Brecht on theatre : the development of an aesthetic / [Textbook] edited and translated by John Willett.

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

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