Brecht On Theatre by Bertolt Brecht
A wholly revised, re-edited and expanded edition of one of the seminal texts of twentieth century theatre. Featuring new translations, additional texts, illustrationsand editorial matter, this is a fullest and clearest account yet of Brecht's thinking on theatre and aesthetics.
Brecht on Theatre has long introduced countless readers to the theatre theories of Bertolt BrechtOriginally compiled and edited by John Willett in 1964, the volume was innovative and comprehensive in its time: essays only recently published in German were suddenly available in English, offering insights into the development of ideas stretching from 1918 to days before Brecht's death in 1956. However, Brecht scholarship and the needs of an interested public have changed greatly over the intervening fifty years, and the new edition ... addresses several important issues. First, there is simply the amount of new material that has come to light over the years ... Second, the retained essays have been judiciously retranslated and their titles have been returned to more literal renditions ... Third, the volume has great intellectual coherence. Rather than imitating Willett's adherence to chronology, the editors acknowledge the principle while diverging on occasion to group thematically related terms and thus allow a clearer overview of Brecht's evolving thoughts. -- David Barnett * New Theatre Quarterly *
The new Brecht on Theatre improves on John Willett's original version, introducing some enlightening texts that were not previously accessible to an English-speaking readership ... Finely conceived and beautifully edited. -- Michael Wood, University of Edinburgh, UK * Modern Language Review *
Though this third edition draws on Willett's original, it is an autonomous publication in many respects. Almost half of the material is new in English translation ... The additions, often pragmatic in nature, reveal him wrestling with the relationship of both actor and spectator to theatrical work, each other, and society. [This book] will allow Anglophone scholars and performance practitioners to revisit Brecht's influence as a writer, theoretician, and theatre maker specifically, but also - more generally - the relationship between political thought and aesthetics, and between the theory and the practice of making art. * TDR: The Drama Review *
The new Brecht on Theatre improves on John Willett's original version, introducing some enlightening texts that were not previously accessible to an English-speaking readership ... Finely conceived and beautifully edited. -- Michael Wood, University of Edinburgh, UK * Modern Language Review *
Though this third edition draws on Willett's original, it is an autonomous publication in many respects. Almost half of the material is new in English translation ... The additions, often pragmatic in nature, reveal him wrestling with the relationship of both actor and spectator to theatrical work, each other, and society. [This book] will allow Anglophone scholars and performance practitioners to revisit Brecht's influence as a writer, theoretician, and theatre maker specifically, but also - more generally - the relationship between political thought and aesthetics, and between the theory and the practice of making art. * TDR: The Drama Review *
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose work has had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, The Life of Galileo, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Editors: Marc Silberman is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. Steve Giles is Emeritus Professor of German Studies and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, UK. Tom Kuhn is Professor of 20th century German Literature at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK, and General Editor of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama's Brecht publications.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408145456 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408145456 |
| Title | Brecht On Theatre |
| Author | Bertolt Brecht |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2014-11-20 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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