Brecht on Theatre  8685

The Development of an Aesthetic

  • ‘… the inflexible rule that the proof of the pudding is in the eating’
  • Introduction   John Willett

Part One: 1918-1932

  1. Frank Wedekind
  2. A Reckoning
  3. Emphasis on Sport
  4. Three Cheers for Shaw
  5. Conversation with Bert Brecht
  6. A Radio Speech
  7. Shouldn’t We Abolish Aesthetics?
  8. The Epic Theatre and Its Difficulties
  9. Last Stage: Oedipus
  10. A Dialogue about Acting
  11. On Form and Subject-Matter
  12. An Example of Pedagogics
  13. The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre
  14. The Literarization of the Theatre
  15. The Film, the Novel and the Epic Theatre
  16. The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication
  17. The Question of Criteria for Judging Acting
  18. Indirect Impact of the Epic Theatre

Part Two: 1933-1947

  1. Interview with an Exile
  2. Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction
  3. The German Drama: pre-Hitler
  4. Criticism of the New York Production of Die Mutter
  5. On the Use of Music in an Epic Theatre
  6. Alienation Effects in Chinese Theatre
  7. Notes to Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe
  8. On Gestic Music
  9. The Popular and the Realistic
  10. On Rhymeless Verse with Irregular Rhythms
  11. The Street Scene
  12. On Experimental Theatre
  13. New Techniques of Acting
  14. Two Essays on Unprofessional Acting
  15. Notes on the Folk Play
  16. Alienation Effects in the Narrative Pictures of the Elder Brueghel
  17. A Little Private Tuition for my Friend Max Gorelik
  18. Building up a Part: Laughton’s Galileo
  19. ‘Der Messingkauf’: an editorial note

Part Three: 1947-1948

  1. A Short Organum for the Theatre

Part Four: 1948-1956

  1. Masterful Treatment of a Model
  2. From the Mother Courage Model
  3. Does Use of the Model Restrict the Artist’s Freedom?
  4. Formal Problems Arising from the Theatre’s New Content
  5. Stage Design for the Epic Theatre
  6. From a Letter to an Actor
  7. Some of the Things that can be Learnt from Stanislavsky
  8. Theaterarbeit: an editorial note
  9. Notes on Erwin Strittmatter’s Play Katzgraben
  10. Study of the First Scene of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
  11. Cultural Policy and Academy of Arts
  12. Conversation about being Forced into Empathy
  13. Classical Status as an Inhibiting Factor
  14. Can the Present-Day World be Reproduced by Means of Theatre?
  15. Appendices to the ‘Short Organum’
  16. ‘Dialectics in the Theatre’: an editorial note
  17. Our London Season
  • Other English Translations

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