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Brecht Plays 8

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472538579
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Brecht Plays 8 written by Bertolt Brecht and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English Volume 8 of Brecht's collected plays contains his last completed plays, from the eight years between his return from America to Europe after the war and his death in 1956. Brecht's ANTIGONE (1948) is a bold adaptation of Holderlin's classic German translation of Sophocles' play. A reflection on resistance and dictatorship in the aftermath of Nazism, it was a radical new experiment in epic theatre. THE DAYS OF THE COMMUNE (1949) is a semi-documentary account of the Paris Commune, and Brecht's most serious and ambitious historical play. TURANDOT is Brecht's version of the classic Chinese story is a satire on the intelligentsia of the Weimar Republic, Nazi bureaucracy, and other targets.

Brecht’s Early Plays

Author : Ronald Speirs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349054496
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Brecht’s Early Plays written by Ronald Speirs and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982-06-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 3, Expressionism and Epic Theatre

Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521296304
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (963 download)

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Book Synopsis Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 3, Expressionism and Epic Theatre by : J. L. Styan

Download or read book Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 3, Expressionism and Epic Theatre written by J. L. Styan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-06-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern drama in theory and ... /J.L. Styan.-v.3.

Bertolt Brecht's Dramatic Theory

Author : John J. White
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571130764
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Bertolt Brecht's Dramatic Theory written by John J. White and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In concert with his work as a politically-charged playwright and dramaturge, Bertolt Brecht concerned himself extensively with the theory of drama. He was convinced that the Aristotelian ideal of audience catharsis through identification with a hero and the resultant experience of terror and pity worked against his goal of bettering society. He did not want his audiences to feel, but to think, and his main theoretical thrusts -- Verfremdungseffekte (de-familiarization effects) and epic theater, among others -- were conceived in pursuit of this goal. This is the first detailed study in English of Brecht's writings on the theater to take account of works first made available in the recent German edition of his collected works. It offers in-depth analyses of Brecht's canonical essays on the theater from 1930 to the late 1940s and early GDR years. Close readings of the individual essays are supplemented by surveys of the changing connotations within Brecht's dramaturgical oeuvre of key theoretical terms, including epic and anti-Aristotelian theater, de-familiarization, historicization, and dialectical theater. Brecht's distinct contribution to the theorizing of acting and audience response is examined in detail, and each theoretical essay and concept is placed in the context of the aesthetic debates of the time, subjected to a critical assessment, and considered in light of subsequent scholarly thinking. In many cases, the playwright's theoretical discourse is shown to employ methods of "epic" presentation and techniques of de-familiarization that are corollaries of the dramatic techniques for which his plays are justly famous. John J. White is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at King's College London.

Character, Ideology, and Symbolism in the Plays of Wedekind, Sternheim, Kaiser, Toller, and Brecht

Author : M. Helena Gonçalves da Silva
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 9780947623005
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Character, Ideology, and Symbolism in the Plays of Wedekind, Sternheim, Kaiser, Toller, and Brecht written by M. Helena Gonçalves da Silva and published by MHRA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Exiles

Author : Daria Santini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178672622X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Exiles written by Daria Santini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1934. Austrian actress Elisabeth Bergner dominated the British theatre scene, poet and director Berthold Viertel shot two successful films for Gaumont British; two great actors from the Weimar era, Conrad Veidt and Fritz Kortner, became well-known faces in English-speaking cinema and the Hungarian journalist Stefan Lorant launched the first ever continental-style illustrated magazine for the British newspaper market. Exploring a phase in the history of Anglo-German relations during which the émigrés from Hitler's Germany were making their influence felt in Britain, Daria Santini traces their presence in London from around 1933 to 1935 when these characters made their presence truly felt, all while the Nazi threat loomed on the horizon.

Brecht Sourcebook

Author :
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113463711X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Brecht Sourcebook written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile

Author : Ronald Speirs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521782159
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile written by Ronald Speirs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertolt Brecht, one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century, was also a poet of distinction. This volume is the first comprehensive study devoted to his most important collection of political poetry, the Svendborg Poems. The contributors analyse Brecht's work critically and historically, discussing it in relation to questions of poetics, political commitment, exile, propaganda, rhetoric, and the scope and limitations of political poetry. Links are also drawn with the work of German, Soviet and English poets of the period, and with later Germany poets.

Presence in Play

Author : Cormac Power
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042023813
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Presence in Play written by Cormac Power and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presence in Play: A Critique of Theories of Presence in the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey and analysis of theatrical presence to be published. Theatre as an art form has often been associated with notions of presence. The 'live' immediacy of the actor, the unmediated unfolding of dramatic action and the 'energy' generated through an actor-audience relationship are among the ideas frequently used to explain theatrical experience – and all are underpinned by some understanding of 'presence.' Precisely what is meant by presence in the theatre is part of what Presence in Play sets out to explain. While this work is rooted in twentieth century theatre and performance since modernism, the author draws on a range of historical and theoretical material. Encompassing ideas from semiotics and phenomenology, Presence in Play puts forward a framework for thinking about presence in theatre, enriched by poststructuralist theory, forcefully arguing in favour of 'presence' as a key concept for theatre studies today.

Performing Brecht

Author : Margaret Eddershaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134895402
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Performing Brecht written by Margaret Eddershaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Brecht is an unprecedented history of the productions of Brecht's plays in Britain over forty years. Margaret Eddershaw surveys all aspects of Brecht in performance, from his methodologies to his place in postmodernist theatre and beyond. She focuses on key productions by directors including George Devine, Sam Wanamaker, William Gaskill, Howard Davies, John Dexter and Richard Eyre. Eddershaw also provides three in-depth case studies of productions in the 1990s, incorporating her own exclusive access to the rehearsals and in-depth interviews with directors and performers. The case studies are: * The Good Person of Sechuan, directed by Deborah Warner and starring Fiona Shaw; * Mother Courage, directed by Philip Prowse and starring Glenda Jackson; * The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, directed by Di Trevis and starring Antony Sher

Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life

Author : Stephen Parker
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 140815563X
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life written by Stephen Parker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material, including Brecht's medical records, Parker offers a rich and enthralling account of Brecht's life and work, viewed through the prism of the artist. Tracing his extraordinary life, from his formative years in Augsburg, through the First World War, his politicisation during the Weimar Republic and his years of exile, up to the Berliner Ensemble's dazzling productions in Paris and London, Parker shows how Brecht achieved his transformative effect upon world theatre and poetry. Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life is a powerful portrait of a great, compulsively contradictory personality, whose artistry left its lasting imprint on modern culture.

Bertolt Brecht's Furcht und Elend Des Dritten Reiches

Author : John J. White
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571133739
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Bertolt Brecht's Furcht und Elend Des Dritten Reiches written by John J. White and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First thorough treatment in English of one of Brecht's most important antifascist works.

Selected Writings: 1927-1934

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674945869
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Selected Writings: 1927-1934 written by Walter Benjamin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.

Brecht's Tradition

Author : Max Spalter
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421435497
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Brecht's Tradition written by Max Spalter and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1967. Literary scholars often acknowledge that Brecht borrowed from a variety of traditions, including Goethe, Schiller, expressionists, naturalists, and realists, all of whom affected his work. However, they tend not to address any single tradition as exclusively Brecht's. From these various literary traditions, Brecht borrowed formal elements only; compared with other writers to whom he is indebted, Brecht exceeds them in cynicism. They do not convey anything like his pitiless debunking attitude, his corrosive anti-romanticism, his hardheaded refusal to idealize or glorify, and his suspicion of all sentimentalities. This book discusses what the author identifies as the "Brechtian sensibility." Chroniclers of drama have not totally ignored the Brechtian tradition, but too often they are content to note merely that Brecht shared with some writers—particularly Büchner and Wedekind—a proclivity for open drama and episodes of racy realism tinged with poetic feeling. Other critics have not closely studied the various plays of this tradition in order to show how they constitute a distinctive and well-defined species of theater to which Brecht unmistakably belongs.

Brecht Sourcebook

Author : Henry Bial
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134637101
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Brecht Sourcebook written by Henry Bial and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertolt Brecht is one of the most prolific and influential writer-directors of the twentieth century. This fascinating anthology brings together in one volume many of the most important articles written about Brecht between 1957 and 1997. The collection explores a wide range of viewpoints about Brecht's theatre theories and practice, as well as including three plays not otherwise available in English: The Beggar or The Dead Dog, Baden Lehrstuck and The Seven Deadly Sins of the Lower Middle Class. Editors Martin and Bial have brought together a unique compendium which covers all the key areas including: * the development of Brecht's aesthetic theories * the relationship of Epic theatre to orthodox dramatic theatre * Brecht's collaboration with Kurt Weill, Paul Dessau and Max Frisch * Brecht's influence on a variety of cultures and contexts including England, Italy , Moscow and Japan. Together these essays are an ideal companion to Brecht's plays, and provide an invaluable reconsideration of Brecht's work. Contributors include: Werner Hecht, Mordecai Gorelik, Eric Bentley, Jean-Paul Sartre, Kurt Weill, Ernst Bloch, Darko Suvin, Carl Weber, Paul Dessau, Denis Calandra, W. Stuart McDowell, Ernst Schmacher, Hans-Joachim Bunge, Martin Esslin, Artuto Lazzari, Tadashi Uchino, Diana Taylor, Elin Diamond, and Lee Baxandall.

Selected Writings

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674017467
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Selected Writings written by Walter Benjamin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.

Der Gute Mensch Von Sezuan, Brecht

Author : Alfred D. White
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Der Gute Mensch Von Sezuan, Brecht written by Alfred D. White and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: