Brecht And The Onslaught On Tragedy
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Bertolt Brecht's Furcht und Elend Des Dritten Reiches
Author | : John J. White |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1571133739 |
First thorough treatment in English of one of Brecht's most important antifascist works.
The Text and Its Context
Author | : Nigel Harris |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783039109289 |
This Festschrift for Ronald Speirs, Professor of German at the University of Birmingham, contains twenty-four original essays by scholars from Great Britain, Germany, Austria, and Norway. Between them they encompass the entire modern period from the later eighteenth century onwards, and focus on a wide range of German-speaking environments. Several essays throw new light on authors to whom Professor Speirs himself has devoted particular attention (such as Brecht, Thomas Mann, Nietzsche, and Fontane), whilst others discuss writers such as Lenz, Büchner, Böhlau, C. F. Meyer, Keyserling, Jahnn, and Huch. Above all, however, the contributions address the complexities of writing in ideologically diverse contexts, including the Third Reich and the former German Democratic Republic. This interplay between text and context is the cornerstone which links all the essays, as it has consistently informed Ronald Speirs's own work - which combines a scrupulous attention to textual detail with an acute awareness of the socio-political milieux and philosophical influences that shape creative literature.
Brecht and Tragedy
Author | : Martin Revermann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2021-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108808085 |
This wide-ranging, detailed and engaging study of Brecht's complex relationship with Greek tragedy and tragic tradition argues that this is fundamental for understanding his radicalism. Featuring an extensive discussion of The Antigone of Sophocles (1948) and further related works (the Antigone model book and the Small Organon for the Theatre), this monograph includes the first-ever publication of the complete set of colour photographs taken by Ruth Berlau. This is complemented by comparatist explorations of many of Brecht's own plays as his experiments with tragedy conceptualized as the 'big form'. The significance for Brecht of the Greek tragic tradition is positioned in relation to other formative influences on his work (Asian theatre, Naturalism, comedy, Schiller and Shakespeare). Brecht emerges as a theatre artist of enormous range and creativity, who has succeeded in re-shaping and re-energizing tragedy and has carved paths for its continued artistic and political relevance.
Sophocles' Antigone
Author | : |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780936839257 |
(Applause Books). Sophocles, Holderlin, Brecht, Malina four major figures in the world's theatre have all left their imprint on this remarkable dramatic text. Friedrich Holderlin translated Sophocles into German, Brecht adapted Holderlin, and now Judith Malina has rendered Brecht's version into a stunning English incarnation. Available for the first time in English.
Mother Courage and Her Children
Author | : Bertolt Brecht |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780802130822 |
Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modem stage, Mother Courage and Her Children is Bertolt Brecht s most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling ( Mother Courage ), an itinerant trader, as she pulls her wagon of wares and her children through the blood and carnage of Europe s religious wars. Battered by hardships, brutality, and the degradation and death of her children, she ultimately finds herself alone with the one thing in which she truly believes her ramshackle wagon with its tattered flag and freight of boots and brandy. Fitting herself in its harness, the old woman manages, with the last of her strength, to drag it onward to the next battle. In the enduring figure of Mother Courage, Bertolt Brecht has created one of the most extraordinary characters in literature."
Brecht on Theatre
Author | : Bertolt Brecht |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation-effects in directing, acting, and writing, and discusses, among other works, "The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, "and "Galileo," Also included is "A Short Organum for the Theatre," Brecht's most complete exposition of his revolutionary philosophy of drama. Translated and edited by John Willett, "Brecht on Theater" is essential to an understanding of one of the twentieth century's most influential dramatists.
Brecht Plays 8
Author | : Bertolt Brecht |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2015-04-23 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1472538560 |
The latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English Volume 8 of Brecht's collected plays contains his last completed plays, from the eight years between his return from America to Europe after the war and his death in 1956. Brecht's ANTIGONE (1948) is a bold adaptation of Holderlin's classic German translation of Sophocles' play. A reflection on resistance and dictatorship in the aftermath of Nazism, it was a radical new experiment in epic theatre. THE DAYS OF THE COMMUNE (1949) is a semi-documentary account of the Paris Commune, and Brecht's most serious and ambitious historical play. TURANDOT is Brecht's version of the classic Chinese story is a satire on the intelligentsia of the Weimar Republic, Nazi bureaucracy, and other targets.
Brecht on Theatre
Author | : Bertolt Brecht |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0809005425 |
Essays of Brecht translated and edited to explain his theories and discussion of his dramatic works.
Re-interpreting Brecht
Author | : Pia Kleber |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1992-03-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521429009 |
This volume offers a fresh appraisal of the importance of Bertolt Brecht's theory and practice through the documentation of his influence on other dramatists and directors, the examination of how his plays have been interpreted on stage and how his theories have been modified by his followers, and through a selection of the most challenging recent critical approaches to his work. Consideration is also taken of Brecht's influence on contemporary film criticism and his importance for feminist film and theatre. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of drama, literature, German studies and film.