A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 THE DARK TIMES -- 2 BRECHT: PLAYWRIGHT, POET AND ARTIST -- 3 POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND A NEW MORALITY -- 4 ART AND CULTURE -- 5 TOWARDS A MARXIST THEATRE -- 6 KEY CONCEPTS OF BRECHA'S THEATRICAL THEORY -- 7 STAGING BRECHT -- 8 FOUR EARLY PLAYS -- Baal -- Drums in the Night -- In the Jungle of the Cities -- Man equals Man -- 9 TWO MUSIC-THEATRE PIECES AND KURT WEILL -- The Threepenny Opera -- The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny -- 10 MARXISM AND THE THEATRE -- Saint Joan of the Stockyards -- The Decision -- The Mother -- 11 OPPOSITION PLAYS -- Fear and Misery of the Third Reich -- Señora Carrar's Rifles -- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui -- Schweyk in the Second World War -- 12 FIVE GREAT PLAYS -- Life of Galileo -- The Good Person of Szechwan -- Mother Courage and her Children -- Mr Puntila and his Man Matti -- The Caucasian Chalk Circle -- 13 A LATE MASTERPIECE -- The Days of the Commune -- 14 LEGACY -- 15 CHRONICLE.

A guide to all of Brecht's key plays that sets them in their historical, dramaturgical and political contexts.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.