Brecht On Theatre

List of Illustrations General Introduction and Acknowledgements Part One - A New Theatre Introduction to Part One Frank Wedekind (1918) Me in the Theatre (1920) Theatre as Sport (1920) A Reckoning (1920) On the Aesthetics of Drama (1920) On the 'Downfall of the Theatre' (1925) More Good Sport (1926) Three Cheers for Shaw (1926) Prologue to Drums (1926) Shouldn't We Liquidate Aesthetics? (1927) Epic Theatre and Its Difficulties (1927) On New Dramatic Writing (1928) Latest Stage: Oedipus (1929) Dialogue about Acting (1929) On Subject-Matter and Form (1929) On Rehearsing (c. 1930) Dialectical Dramatic Writing (1930/31) Notes on the Opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930) Notes on the Threepenny Opera (1931) Notes on the Comedy Man Equals Man (1931/38) Notes on The Mother (1933/38) Part Two - Exile Years Introduction to Part Two OLD VS. NEW THEATRE Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction (1935) On Experiments in Epic Theatre (1935) The German Drama: pre-Hitler (1935) On the Use of Music in an Epic Theatre (1935) Short List of the Most Frequent, Common and Boring Misconceptions about Epic Theatre (1937) The Progressiveness of the Stanislavsky System (1937) On Experimental Theatre (1939) A Short Private Lecture for My Friend Max Gorelik (1944) ON CHINESE THEATRE, VERFREMDUNG AND GESTUS On the Art of Spectatorship (1935) Maintaining Gestures over Multiple Generations (1935) Verfremdung Effects in Chinese Acting (1936) Three Notes on Verfremdung and the Elder Breughel (1937) Verfremdung Techniques in the Narrative Pictures of the Elder Brueghel On the V-effect of the Elder Breughel V-effects in Some Pictures of the Elder Breughel On Determining the Zero Point (1936/37) The Zero Point (1936/37) Notes on Pointed Heads and Round Heads (1936) On the Production of the V-effect (1938) On Gestic Music (1937) On Rhymeless Verse with Irregular Rhythms (1938) The Street Scene (1938) Short Description of a New Technique of Acting that Produces a Verfremdung

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.