Bertolt Brecht And The David Fragments 1919 1921

Author : David J. Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780567685650

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Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921) by David J. Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson Pdf

This volume offers an examination of Brecht's largely forgotten theatrical fragments of a life of David, written just after the Great War but prior to Brecht winning the Kleist Prize in 1922 and the acclaim that would launch his extraordinary career. David J. Shepherd and Nicholas E. Johnson take as their starting point Brecht's own diaries from the time, which offer a vivid picture of the young Brecht shuttling between Munich and the family home in Augsburg, surrounded by friends, torn between women, desperate for success, and all the while with 'David on the brain'. The analysis of Brecht's David, along with his notebooks and diaries, reveals significant connections between the reception of the Biblical David and one of Germany's most tumultuous cultural periods. Drawing on theatrical experiments conducted with an ensemble from Trinity College Dublin, this volume includes the first ever translation of the David fragments in English, an extensive discussion of the theatrical afterlife of David in the early twentieth century as well as new interdisciplinary insights into the early Brecht: a writer entranced by the biblical David and utterly committed to translating the biblical tradition into his own evolving theatrical idiom.

Author : David Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0567685667

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Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921) by David Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson Pdf

"This volume offers an examination of Brecht's largely forgotten theatrical fragments of a life of David, written just after the Great War but prior to Brecht winning the Kleist Prize in 1922 and the acclaim that would launch his extraordinary career. David J. Shepherd and Nicholas E. Johnson take as their starting point Brecht's own diaries from the time, which offer a vivid picture of the young Brecht shuttling between Munich and the family home in Augsburg, surrounded by friends, torn between women, desperate for success, and all the while with 'David on the brain'. The analysis of Brecht's David, along with his notebooks and diaries, reveals significant connections between the reception of the Biblical David and one of Germany's most tumultuous cultural periods. Drawing on theatrical experiments conducted with an ensemble from Trinity College Dublin, this volume includes the first ever translation of the David fragments in English, an extensive discussion of the theatrical afterlife of David in the early twentieth century as well as new interdisciplinary insights into the early Brecht: a writer entranced by the biblical David and utterly committed to translating the biblical tradition into his own evolving theatrical idiom"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : David J. Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780567685674

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Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921) by David J. Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson Pdf

This volume offers an examination of Brecht's largely forgotten theatrical fragments of a life of David, written just after the Great War but prior to Brecht winning the Kleist Prize in 1922 and the acclaim that would launch his extraordinary career. David J. Shepherd and Nicholas E. Johnson take as their starting point Brecht's own diaries from the time, which offer a vivid picture of the young Brecht shuttling between Munich and the family home in Augsburg, surrounded by friends, torn between women, desperate for success, and all the while with 'David on the brain'. The analysis of Brecht's David, along with his notebooks and diaries, reveals significant connections between the reception of the Biblical David and one of Germany's most tumultuous cultural periods. Drawing on theatrical experiments conducted with an ensemble from Trinity College Dublin, this volume includes the first ever translation of the David fragments in English, an extensive discussion of the theatrical afterlife of David in the early twentieth century as well as new interdisciplinary insights into the early Brecht: a writer entranced by the biblical David and utterly committed to translating the biblical tradition into his own evolving theatrical idiom.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350045019

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Bertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Published in English for the first time, Refugee Conversations is a delightful work that reveals Brecht as a master of comic satire. Written swiftly in the opening years of the Second World War, the dialogues have an urgent contemporary relevance to a Europe once again witnessing populations on the move. The premise is simple: two refugees from Nazi Germany meet in a railway cafe and discuss the current state of the world. They are a bourgeois Jewish physicist and a left-leaning worker. Their world views, their voices and their social experience clash horribly, but they find they have unexpected common ground – especially in their more recent experience of the surreal twists and turns of life in exile, the bureaucracy, and the pathetic failings of the societies that are their unwilling hosts. Their conversations are light and swift moving, the subjects under discussion extremely various: beer, cigars, the Germans' love of order, their education and experience of life, art, pornography, politics, 'great men', morality, seriousness, Switzerland, America ... despite the circumstances of both characters there is a wonderfully whimsical serendipity about their dialogue, the logic and the connections often delightfully absurd. This edition features a full introduction and notes by Professor Tom Kuhn (St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK).

Author : Markus Wessendorf
Publisher : Camden House (NY)
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780985195670

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The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 44 by Markus Wessendorf Pdf

Annual volume, this time featuring special sections on Brecht's dramatic fragments and on comedy in post-Brechtian theater, along with a variety of other contributions.

Author : Ian Newman,David O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781800855601

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Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London by Ian Newman,David O'Shaughnessy Pdf

Charles Macklin (1699?–1797) was one of the most important figures in the eighteenth-century theatre. Born in Ireland, he began acting in London in around 1725 and gave his final performance in 1789 – no other actor can claim to have acted across seven decades of the century, from the reign of George I to the Regency Crisis of 1788. He is credited alongside Garrick with the development of the natural school of acting and gave a famous performance of Shylock that gave George II nightmares. As a dramatist, he wrote one of the great comic pieces of the mid-century (Love à la Mode, 1759), as well as the only play of the century to be twice refused a performance licence (The Man of the World, 1781). He opened an experimental coffeehouse in Covent Garden, he advocated energetically for actors’ rights and copyright reform for dramatists, and he successfully sued theatre rioters. In short, he had an astonishingly varied career. With essays by leading experts on eighteenth-century culture, this volume provides a sustained critical examination of his career, illuminating many aspects of eighteenth-century theatrical culture and of the European Enlightenment, and explores the scholarly benefit – and thrill – of restaging Macklin’s work in the twenty-first century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015057952551

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Brecht Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Katherine Weiss
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408145586

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The Plays of Samuel Beckett by Katherine Weiss Pdf

Beckett remains one of the most important writers of the twentieth century whose radical experimentations in form and content won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. This Critical Companion encompasses his plays for the stage, radio and television, and will be indispensable to students of his work. Challenging and at times perplexing, Beckett's work is represented on almost every literature, theatre and Irish studies curriculum in universities in North America, Europe and Australia. Katherine Weiss' admirably clear study of his work provides the perfect companion, illuminating each play and Beckett's vision, and investigating his experiments with the body, voice and technology. It includes in-depth studies of the major works Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape, and as with other volumes in Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series it features too a series of essays by other scholars and practitioners offering different critical perspectives on Beckett in performance that will inform students' own critical thinking. Together with a series of resources including a chronology and a list of further reading, this is ideal for all students and readers of Beckett's work.

Author : David Barnett
Publisher : Critical and Primary Sources
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474299490

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Bertolt Brecht by David Barnett Pdf

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472558626

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Brecht On Theatre by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht's thinking on theatre and aesthetics. First published in 1964 and on reading lists ever since, it has now been wholly revised, re-edited and expanded with additional texts, illustrations and editorial material, and new translations. The resulting work is a far fuller and more accurate volume that will provide readers with a clearer and more rewarding understanding of Brecht's work and writings. This updated third edition features: * Clearer layout and organisation of the text to facilitate study * New translations of many of the Brechtian texts featured * Over 40 new, previously untranslated essays * Essay titles now correspond to the German originals * A revised selection of illustrations This selection of Bertolt Brecht's critical writing charts the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics over four decades. The volume demonstrates how the theories of Epic Theatre and Verfremdung evolved, and contains notes and essays on the staging of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, Galileo and many others of his plays. Also included is 'Short Organon for the Theatre', Brecht's most complete statement of his revolutionary philosophy of the theatre.

Author : David Russell McCann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:218729308

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The Theater of Bertolt Brecht by David Russell McCann Pdf

Author : Adrian Curtin,Nicholas Johnson,Naomi Paxton,Claire Warden
Publisher : Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1474495044

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The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre by Adrian Curtin,Nicholas Johnson,Naomi Paxton,Claire Warden Pdf

Explores modernism's complex relationship with contemporary theatre. This volume highlights modernism as an impulse that can be carried forward to the present, re-embodied and re-encountered in theatrical performance. It demonstrates how modernist impulses spark contemporary theatre in dynamic ways, continuing the modernist imperative to 'make it new' and to engage meaningfully with the complicated situation of living in the contemporary world. A diverse set of contributions from scholars and theatre practitioners examines the legacy of modernism on the world stage in acts of remembrance, restaging, transmission and slippage. It investigates both well-known and less familiar aspects of modernist theatre history, engaging topics such as the revival of the first Black American musical, feminist and disability-led reinterpretations of canonical modernist plays, the use of modernist-inspired performance practice in contemporary university arts education and the continually contested meaning and importance of the avant-garde. Adrian Curtin is Associate Professor of Drama at the University of Exeter. Nicholas Johnson is Associate Professor of Drama at Trinity College Dublin. Naomi Paxton is Knowledge Exchange Fellow at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. Claire Warden is Professor of Performance and Physical Culture at Loughborough University.

Author : David Barnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107663768

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A History of the Berliner Ensemble by David Barnett Pdf

The Berliner Ensemble was founded by Bertolt Brecht and his wife Helene Weigel in 1949. The company soon gained international prominence, and its productions and philosophy influenced the work of theatre-makers around the world. David Barnett's book is the first study of the company in any language. Based on extensive archival research, it uncovers Brecht's working methods and those of the company's most important directors after his death. The book considers the boon and burden of Brecht's legacy, and provides new insights into battles waged behind the scenes for the preservation of the Brechtian tradition. The Berliner Ensemble was also the German Democratic Republic's most prestigious cultural export, attracting attention from the highest circles of government, and from the Stasi, before it privatised itself after German reunification in 1990. Barnett pieces together a complex history that sheds light on both the company's groundbreaking productions and their turbulent times.

Author : Bertolt Brecht (Schriftsteller, Regisseur)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 041353250X

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Collected Plays by Bertolt Brecht (Schriftsteller, Regisseur) Pdf

Author : Bertolt BRECHT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0413464407

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Collected Plays, Vol. 1 Baal by Bertolt BRECHT Pdf