- ‘… the inflexible rule that the proof of the pudding is in the eating’
- Introduction John Willett
Part One: 1918-1932
- Frank Wedekind
- A Reckoning
- Emphasis on Sport
- Three Cheers for Shaw
- Conversation with Bert Brecht
- A Radio Speech
- Shouldn’t We Abolish Aesthetics?
- The Epic Theatre and Its Difficulties
- Last Stage: Oedipus
- A Dialogue about Acting
- On Form and Subject-Matter
- An Example of Pedagogics
- The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre
- The Literarization of the Theatre
- The Film, the Novel and the Epic Theatre
- The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication
- The Question of Criteria for Judging Acting
- Indirect Impact of the Epic Theatre
Part Two: 1933-1947
- Interview with an Exile
- Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction
- The German Drama: pre-Hitler
- Criticism of the New York Production of Die Mutter
- On the Use of Music in an Epic Theatre
- Alienation Effects in Chinese Theatre
- Notes to Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe
- On Gestic Music
- The Popular and the Realistic
- On Rhymeless Verse with Irregular Rhythms
- The Street Scene
- On Experimental Theatre
- New Techniques of Acting
- Two Essays on Unprofessional Acting
- Notes on the Folk Play
- Alienation Effects in the Narrative Pictures of the Elder Brueghel
- A Little Private Tuition for my Friend Max Gorelik
- Building up a Part: Laughton’s Galileo
- ‘Der Messingkauf’: an editorial note
Part Three: 1947-1948
- A Short Organum for the Theatre
Part Four: 1948-1956
- Masterful Treatment of a Model
- From the Mother Courage Model
- Does Use of the Model Restrict the Artist’s Freedom?
- Formal Problems Arising from the Theatre’s New Content
- Stage Design for the Epic Theatre
- From a Letter to an Actor
- Some of the Things that can be Learnt from Stanislavsky
- Theaterarbeit: an editorial note
- Notes on Erwin Strittmatter’s Play Katzgraben
- Study of the First Scene of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
- Cultural Policy and Academy of Arts
- Conversation about being Forced into Empathy
- Classical Status as an Inhibiting Factor
- Can the Present-Day World be Reproduced by Means of Theatre?
- Appendices to the ‘Short Organum’
- ‘Dialectics in the Theatre’: an editorial note
- Our London Season
- Other English Translations
Contents
- words by Bertolt Brecht
- words by Bertolt Brecht
- words by Bertolt Brecht
- words by Bernard Guillemin, Bertolt Brecht
- words by Bertolt Brecht
- words by Bertolt Brecht
- words by Bertolt Brecht
- words by Bertolt Brecht
- Katzgraben (drama) • 47: Notes on Erwin Strittmatter's Play Katzgraben
- Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (drama) • 40: From the Mother Courage Model
- Dialoge aus dem Messingkauf (book) • 37: 'Der Messingkauf': an editorial note
- Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe (drama) • 25: Notes to Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe
- Leben des Galilei (drama) • 36: Building up a Part: Laughton's Galileo
- Coriolanus (drama) • 48: Study of the First Scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus
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