Brecht on theatre : the development of an aesthetic /

This selection of Bertolt Brecht s critical writing charts the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics over four decades. The volume demonstrates how the theories of Epic Theatre and Alienation evolved, and contains notes and essays on the staging of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mo...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Willett, John
Beste egile batzuk: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Formatua: Liburua
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Argitaratua: New York : Bloomsbury, 2013
Saila:Plays and Playwrights
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500 |a Originaltitel: Berholt-Brecht-Erben 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-285). 
505 0 |a Part One 1918-1932 / 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 paedigogics -- 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 -- Part Two 1933-1946 / 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 and 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 -- Dr Messingkauf: an editorial note -- Part Three 1947-1948 / A short organum for the theatre -- Part Four 1948-1956 / 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 -- Other English translations -- Index. 
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