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The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 140816101X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Caucasian Chalk Circle written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict over possession of a child features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature. Brecht projects an ancient Chinese story onto a realistic setting in Soviet Georgia. In a theme that echoes the Judgment of Solomon, two women argue over the possession of a child; thanks to the unruly judge, Azdak (one of Brecht's most vivid creations) natural justice is done and the peasant Grusha keeps the child she loves, even though she is not its mother. Written in exile in the United States during the Second World War, The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a politically-charged, much-revived and complex example of Brecht's epic theatre. This volume 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 difficult words and phrases. It features the acclaimed translation by James and Tania Stern with W. H. Auden.

Bertolt Brecht

Author : Meg Mumford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351180789
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Bertolt Brecht written by Meg Mumford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertolt Brecht’s methods of collective experimentation, and his unique framing of the theatrical event as a forum for change, placed him among the most important contributors to the theory and practice of theatre. His work continues to have a significant impact on performance practitioners, critics and teachers alike. Now revised and reissued, this book combines: an overview of the key periods in Brecht’s life and work a clear explanation of his key theories, including the renowned ideas of Gestus and Verfremdung an account of his groundbreaking 1954 production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle an in-depth analysis of his practical exercises and rehearsal methods. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are an invaluable resource for students and scholars.

War Primer

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784782084
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book War Primer written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism. He takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a unique attempt to understand the truth of war using mass media. Pictures of catastrophic bombings, propaganda portraits of leading Nazis, scenes of unbearable tragedy on the battlefield — all these images contribute to an anthology of horror, from which Brecht’s perceptions are distilled in poems that are razor-sharp, angry and direct. The result is an outstanding literary memorial to World War Two and one of the most spontaneous, revealing and moving of Brecht’s works.

Bertolt Brecht in America

Author : James K. Lyon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140085590X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Bertolt Brecht in America written by James K. Lyon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This colorful account of Bertolt Brecht's move from Germany to America during the Hitler era explores his activities as a Hollywood writer, a playwright determined to conquer Broadway, a political commentator and activist, a social observer, and an exile in an alien land. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435233174
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book The Caucasian Chalk Circle written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1996 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Set in the Soviet Caucasus after the Second World War. To celebrate the settlement of a land dispute, the peasants stage a long parable play which explores, through the medium of a distant fairy tale, concepts of justice, social oppression and revolution"--Back cover.

Justice and Democracy

Author : Brian Barry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521545433
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Justice and Democracy written by Brian Barry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Love Poems

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871404931
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Love Poems written by Bertolt Brecht and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation An historic publication in which the legendary German poet and dramatist emerges, quite like Goethe, as a poet driven by Eros. Bertolt Brecht is widely considered the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, and to this day remains best known as a dramatist, the author of Mother Courage, The Threepenny Opera, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, among so many other works. However, Brecht was also a hugely prolific and eclectic poet, producing more than 2,000 poems during his lifetime—indeed, so many that even his own wife, Helene Weigel, had no idea just how many he had written. "A thieving magpie of much of world literature," the full scope and variety of his poetic output did not become apparent until after his death. Now, the English-speaking world can access part of his stunning body of work in Love Poems, the first volume in a monumental undertaking by award-winning translators David Constantine and Tom Kuhn to translate Brecht's poetic legacy into English. Love Poems collects his most intimate and romantic poems, many of which were banned in German in the 1950s for their explicit eroticism. Written between 1918 and 1955, these poems reflect an artist driven not only by the bitter and violent politics of his age but, like Goethe, by the untrammeled forces of love, romance, and erotic desire. In a 1966 New Yorker article, Hannah Arendt wrote of Brecht that he had "staked his life and his art as few poets have ever done." In these 78 poems, we see Brecht's astonishing and deeply personal love poems—including 22 never before published in English—many addressed to particular women, which show Brecht as lover and love poet, engaged in a bitter struggle to keep faith, hope, and love alive during desperate times. Featuring a personal foreword by Barbara Brecht-Schall, his last surviving child, Love Poems reveals Brecht as not merely one of the most famous playwrights of the twentieth century but also one of its most fiercely creative poets.

The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472582748
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertolt Brecht's extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar's efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his planned biography, confronted by a baffling range of contradictory views. Was Caesar an opportunist, a permanently bankrupt businessman who became too big for the banks to allow him to fail – as his former banker claims? Did he stumble into power while trying to make money, as suggested by the diary of his former slave? Across these different versions of Caesar's career in the political and economic life of Rome, Brecht wryly contrasts the narratives of imperial progress with the reality of grasping self-interest, in a sly allegory that points to the Weimar Republic and perhaps even to our own times. Brecht reminds his readers of the need for constant vigilance and critical suspicion towards the great figures of the past. In an echo of his dramatic theories, the audience is confronted with its own task of active interpretation rather than passive acceptance -- we have to work out our own views about Mr Julius Caesar. This edition is translated by Charles Osborne and features an introduction and editorial notes by Anthony Phelan and Tom Kuhn.

Bertolt Brecht's Great Plays

Author : Alfred D. White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Bertolt Brecht's Great Plays written by Alfred D. White and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Guide To The Plays Of Bertolt Brecht

Author : Stephen Unwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 140815031X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book A Guide To The Plays Of Bertolt Brecht written by Stephen Unwin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Unwin's A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht is an indispensable, comprehensive and highly readable companion to the dramatic work of this challenging and rewarding writer. Besides providing detailed accounts of nineteen key plays, it explores their context and Brecht's dramatic theory to equip readers with a rich understanding of how Brecht's work was shaped by his times and by his evolving thinking about the function of theatre. Bertolt Brecht's work as a director, his critical and theoretical writing, and above all the remarkable plays that emerged from one of the most turbulent periods in history have had a profound and lasting influence on theatre. Central to theatre studies courses and whose plays are frequently revived on stage, Brecht is nevertheless perceived as a difficult writer. This companion is divided into two sections: the first seven chapters outline the tumultuous historical, cultural and theatrical context of Brecht's work. They explore his theatrical theory and provide an account of his approach to staging his plays which informs an understanding of how they work in practice. The second section provides an analysis of nineteen plays in six chronological groupings, each prefaced by a brief sketch of Brecht's life and theatrical development in that period. For each play, Stephen Unwin offers a synopsis, a critical commentary and an account of the work in performance. The book concludes with an examination of Brecht's legacy and a chronicle of his life and times. Written by experienced theatre director Stephen Unwin, this is the perfect companion to Brecht's plays and life for student and theatre practitioner alike.

Brecht on Performance

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408159503
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Brecht on Performance written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings for directors and theatre practitioners, and is suitable for acting schools, directors, actors, students and teachers of Theatre Studies. Through these texts Brecht provides a general practical approach to acting and to realising texts for the stage that crystallises and makes concrete many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writing. The volume is in two parts. The first features an entirely new commentated edition of Brecht's dialogues and essays about the practice of theatre, known as the Messingkauf, or Buying Brass, including the 'Practice Pieces' for actors (rehearsal scenes for classics by Shakespeare and Schiller). The second contains rehearsal and production records from Brecht's work on productions of Life of Galileo, Antigone, Mother Courage and others. Edited by an international team of Brecht scholars and including an essay by director and teacher Di Trevis examining the practical application of these texts for theatres and actors today, Brecht on Performance is a wonderfully rich resource. The text is illustrated with over 30 photographs from the Modelbooks.

Measures Taken and Other Lehrstucke

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472538080
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Measures Taken and Other Lehrstucke written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lehrstücke (or 'learning-plays') lie at the heart of Brechtian theatre. Written during 1929 and 1930, years of far-reaching political and economic upheaveal in Germany and the period of Brecht's most sharply Communist works, these short plays show an abrupt rejection of most of the trappings of conventional theatre. The Lehrstücke are spare and highly formalized pieces intended for performance by amateurs, on the principle that the moral and political lessons contained in them can best be taught by participation in an actual production. There is nothing in the drama of the twentieth century to match the precision of their language and the economy of their theatrical technique.

The Cambridge Companion to Brecht

Author : Peter Thomson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521857093
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Brecht written by Peter Thomson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated Companion offers students crucial guidance on virtually every aspect of the work of this complex and controversial writer. It brings together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners, and this edition introduces more voices and themes. The opening essays place Brecht's creative work in its historical and biographical context and are followed by chapters on single texts, from The Threepenny Opera to The Caucasian Chalk Circle, on some early plays and on the Lehrstücke. Other essays analyse Brecht's directing, his poetry, his interest in music and his work with actors. This revised edition also contains additional essays on his early experience of cabaret, his significance in the development of film theory and his unique approach to dramaturgy. A detailed calendar of Brecht's life and work and a selective bibliography of English criticism complete this provocative overview of a writer who constantly aimed to provoke.

Theatre of the Oppressed

Author : Augusto Boal
Publisher : Get Political
ISBN 13 : 9780745328386
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Theatre of the Oppressed written by Augusto Boal and published by Get Political. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''... brilliantly original ... brings cultural and post-colonial theory to bear on a wide range of authors with great skill and sensitivity.' Terry Eagleton

Seven Plays

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Plays written by Bertolt Brecht and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays written by Bertolt Brecht and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These six plays represent the best and most humorous of Brecht's shorter works. The Jewish Wife is from the Fear and Misery in the Third Reich cycle of one-act plays, which, along with In Search of Justice and The Informer, chromicles the hardships of life in Nazi Germany. The Exception and the Rule, one of Brecht's most popular short works, grimly depicts the consequences of the mutually dependent -- yet inevitable inequitable -- relationship between the priviledged and the poor; it is included here with The Measures Taken and The Elephant Calf. Though all of these ales of horror, ad Eric Bentley calls them, have tragic undertones, they are also infused with farcical absurdities and cosmic irony so characteristic of Brecht's work.

Heinz-Uwe Haus and Theatre Making in Cyprus and Greece

Author : Heinz-Uwe Haus
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781527572744
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (727 download)

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Download or read book Heinz-Uwe Haus and Theatre Making in Cyprus and Greece written by Heinz-Uwe Haus and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents to the reader a selection of the considerable amount of material written and published in relation to Heinz-Uwe Haus's productions of Brechtâ (TM)s plays and Brechtian productions by other dramatists, especially ancient Greek drama, in Cyprus and Greece since his production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle marked the launch of the Cyprus National Theatre in 1975 after the countryâ (TM)s political turmoil that had culminated in the Turkish invasion. This includes material written by Haus at the time for his cast, announcements of the productions in the media, newspaper reviews and academic articles about the productions, conference contributions, and reflections by cast members (both professional actors and university faculty) and designers (set, costume, light, music). His work in Cyprus and Greece led to further collaborations on productions of ancient Greek plays across the world.