A guide to the plays of Bertolt Brecht. (2015 copyright 2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stephen Unwin.
• Other Names: Unwin, Stephen
• Contents: 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 Brecht'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 -- Senora 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 832.912; Literary Criticism -- Drama; Social conditions; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Germany; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781408150313
• Related ISBNs: 140815031X
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