Brecht On Theatre

List of IllustrationsGeneral Introduction and AcknowledgementsPart One - A New TheatreIntroduction to Part OneFrank 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 YearsIntroduction to Part TwoOLD VS. NEW THEATRETheatre 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 GESTUSOn 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 BrueghelOn the V-effect of the Elder BreughelV-effects in Some Pictures of the Elder BreughelOn 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 Effect (1940)Athletic Training (1940)On Epic Dramatic Art:

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Marc Silberman is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. He is the co-editor of the completely revised and updated third edition of Brecht on Theatre and of Brecht on Performance (both 2014), and editor of Brecht on Film & Radio. Steve Giles is Professor Emeritus of German Studies and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has contributed to Brecht on Art and Politics (Methuen Drama, 2003) as well as authoring books on Modern European Drama and Critical Theory. 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.