Brecht In Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brecht In Context write by John Willett. This book was released on 2015-04-06. Brecht In Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New edition, revised for the centenary of Brecht's birth, containing additional updated material In this classic study, John Willett sets in context not only Brecht the theatre practitioner but Brecht the writer and man of his time. Through chapters on Brecht's relationships and attitudes to contemporary politics, English and American literature, Expressionism, music, art and cinema, as well as to such figures as Auden, Kipling and Piscator, the book presents a detailed and wide-ranging account of one of the most significant men of this century. "An outstanding introduction to its subject. . . will immeasurably enrich Brechtians young and old, especially those who think they know it all" (Times Educational Supplement); "Economical, witty and unpretentious in a way that Brecht would have liked, but immensely well-informed and thoroughly documented, seems certain to become required reading for anyone seriously interested in the dramatist" (London Review of Books); "An extraordinarily rich volume, which succeeds in being packed but uncrowded" (New Statesman)
Bertolt Brecht in Context
Bertolt Brecht in Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bertolt Brecht in Context write by Stephen Brockmann. This book was released on 2021-06-10. Bertolt Brecht in Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century. It explores the specific context from which he emerged in imperial Germany during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as Brecht's response to the turbulent German history of the twentieth century: World Wars One and Two, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi dictatorship, the experience of exile, and ultimately the division of Germany into two competing political blocs divided by the postwar Iron Curtain. Throughout this turbulence, and in spite of it, Brecht managed to remain extraordinarily productive, revolutionizing the theater of the twentieth century and developing a new approach to language and performance. Because of his unparalleled radicalism and influence, Brecht remains controversial to this day. This book – with a Foreword by Mark Ravenhill – lays out in clear and accessible language the shape of Brecht's contribution and the reasons for his ongoing influence.
Brecht and Ionesco
Brecht and Ionesco - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brecht and Ionesco write by Julian H. Wulbern. This book was released on 1971. Brecht and Ionesco available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Concerned with the extent to which political commitment (or the lack of it) influences drama, Julian Wulbern examines the polemics, dramatic theory, and theatrical practice of Brecht and lonesco to help resolve the confusion which has resulted in part from lonesco's misunderstanding and criticism of Brecht's theories concerning 'epic' theater. Drawing heavily on his direct experience of the plays as performed in the original languages, as well as on his work with the Berliner Ensemble and on personal contact with lonesco, Wulbern seeks to put the special form of commitment adopted by each author into the context of his creative works. Focusing on the later works of each man, Wulbern first analyzes the play which makes the clearest statement of each playwright's particular viewpoint: Brecht's The Measures Taken and lonesco's Rhinoceros. He show that both of these works are more than topical statements or sententious documents, for both deal ultimately with the situation of man in twentieth-century mass society. In an examination of Brecht's The Life of Galileo and lonesco's Exit the King, Wulbern shows further how intentions often get lost in the process of creating a work of art. Despite Brecht's clearly polemic intentions, his later works function dialectically; they pose fundamental questions concerning the conduct of human life. And despite lonesco's aspiration to universality, his works are so conditioned by his obsessive view of life's absurdity that they become reduced to his own unique form of polemic."- Publisher
Brecht in Context
Brecht in Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brecht in Context write by John Willett. This book was released on 1998. Brecht in Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The second revised edition of this study in which Willett sets in context not only Brecht the theatre practitioner but Brecht the writer and man of his time, with chapters on his relationships and attitudes to politics, English and American literature, Expressionism, music, art and cinema, as well as to figures such as Auden, Kipling and Piscator.
A Guide To The Plays Of Bertolt Brecht
A Guide To The Plays Of Bertolt Brecht - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Guide To The Plays Of Bertolt Brecht write by Stephen Unwin. This book was released on 2015-01-30. A Guide To The Plays Of Bertolt Brecht available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
