Brecht And Political Theatre

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474243346

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Brecht On Art And Politics by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century's most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and politics. Here are a cross-section of Brecht's wide-ranging thoughts which offer us an extraordinary window onto the concerns of a modern world in four decades of economic and political disorder. The book is designed to give wider access to the experience of a dynamic intellect, radically engaged with social, political and cultural processes. Each section begins with a short essay by the editors introducing and summarising Brecht's thought in the relevant year.

Author : Siegfried Mews,Herbert Knust
Publisher : University of North Carolina S
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1469657953

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Essays on Brecht by Siegfried Mews,Herbert Knust Pdf

These essays represent the push to provide interdisciplinary Brecht research to English-speaking audiences following his death in 1956 and offer novel readings of his works indicative of the major literary questions of the time. The essays explore both Brecht's theoretical approach and political thought, with many also taking a comparative approach to analysis of individual plays. The contributors are Reinhold Grimm, Karl-Heinz Schoeps, Herbert Knust, Hans Meyer, Siegfried Mews, Raymond English, James Lyon, Darko Suvin, Gisela Bahr, Grace Allen, Ralph Ley, John Fuegi, Andrzej Wirth and David Bathrick.

Author : Laura Bradley
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191536779

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Brecht and Political Theatre by Laura Bradley Pdf

This production history of The Mother provides substantial new insights into Bertolt Brecht's theatre and drama, his impact on political theatre, and the relationship between text, performance, and politico-cultural context. As the only play which Brecht staged in the Weimar Republic, during his exile, and in the GDR, The Mother offers a unique opportunity to compare his theatrical practice in contrasting settings and at different points in his career. Through detailed analysis of original archival evidence, Bradley shows how Brecht became far more sensitive to his spectators' political views and cultural expectations, even making major tactical concessions in his 1951 production at the Berliner Ensemble. These compromises indicate that his 'mature' staging should not be regarded as definitive, for it was tailored to a unique and delicate situation. The Mother has appealed strongly to politically committed theatre practitioners both in and beyond Germany. By exploiting the text's generic hybridity and the interplay between Brecht's 'epic' and 'dramatic' elements, directors have interpreted it in radically different ways. So although Brecht's 1951 production stagnated into an affirmative GDR heritage piece, post-Brechtian directors have used The Mother to promote their own political and theatrical concerns, from anti-authoritarian theatre to reflections on the legacies of state Socialism. Their ideological and theatrical subversion have helped Brecht's text to outlive the political system that it came to uphold.

Author : M. Morgan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137370389

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Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe by M. Morgan Pdf

This book explores the connection between politics and theatre by looking at the works and lives of Shaw, Brecht, Sartre, and Ionesco, providing a cultural history detailing the changing role of political theatre in twentieth-century Europe.

Author : Betty Nance Weber,Hubert Heinen
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820334783

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Bertolt Brecht by Betty Nance Weber,Hubert Heinen Pdf

First published in 1980, this collection of fifteen original essays touches on a variety of topics related to the genesis of Brecht's works and their impact on contemporary literature, theater, and film. Discussed are Brecht's confrontation with Marxism and its political manifestations, the influence of his work on film and theater practitioners, the uses his literary descendants have made of his political commitment, and much more.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350068919

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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, Brecht's writings are presented in this definitive edition featuring the wholly revised, re-edited and expanded text produced for the 50th anniversary of the first English publication. With additional texts, illustrations and editorial material, and with almost half the material newly translated, this edition provides a far fuller and more accurate account of the development of Brecht's work and writings. This edition features: * Clearer layout and organisation of the text * 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

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : OSU:32435017652967

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Brecht on Theatre by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

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.

Author : Dr. Prateek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000222494

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Brecht in India by Dr. Prateek Pdf

Brecht in India analyses the dramaturgy and theatrical practices of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht in post-independence India. The book explores how post-independence Indian drama is an instance of a cultural palimpsest, a site celebrating a dialogue between Western and Indian theatrical traditions, rather than a homogenous and isolated canon. Analysing the dissemination of a selection of Brecht’s plays in the Hindi belt between the 1960s and the 1990s, this study demonstrates that Brecht’s work provided aesthetic and ideological paradigms to modern Hindi playwrights, helping them develop and stage a national identity. The book also traces how the reception of Brecht was mediated in India, how it helped post-independence Indian playwrights formulate a political theatre, and how the dissemination of Brechtian aesthetics in India addressed the anxiety related to the stasis in Brechtian theatre in Europe. Tracking the dialogue between Brechtian aesthetics in India and Europe and a history of deliberate cultural resistance, Brecht in India is an invaluable resource for academics and students of theatre studies and theatre historiography, as well as scholars of post-colonial history and literature.

Author : Götz Dapp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Arts and society
ISBN : UOM:39015074236665

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Mediaclash in Political Theatre by Götz Dapp Pdf

Author : Karen Jürs-Munby,Jerome Carroll,Steve Giles
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408185889

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Postdramatic Theatre and the Political by Karen Jürs-Munby,Jerome Carroll,Steve Giles Pdf

Is postdramatic theatre political and if so how? How does it relate to Brecht's ideas of political theatre, for example? How can we account for the relationship between aesthetics and politics in new forms of theatre, playwriting, and performance? The chapters in this book discuss crucial aspects of the issues raised by the postdramatic turn in theatre in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century: the status of the audience and modes of spectatorship in postdramatic theatre; the political claims of postdramatic theatre; postdramatic theatre's ongoing relationship with the dramatic tradition; its dialectical qualities, or its eschewing of the dialectic; questions of representation and the real in theatre; the role of bodies, perception, appearance and theatricality in postdramatic theatre; as well as subjectivity and agency in postdramatic theatre, dance and performance. Offering analyses of a wide range of international performance examples, scholars in this volume engage with Hans-Thies Lehmann's theoretical positions both affirmatively and critically, relating them to other approaches by thinkers ranging from early theorists such as Brecht, Adorno and Benjamin, to contemporary thinkers such as Fischer-Lichte, Rancière and others

Author : Stephen Brockmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108634144

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Bertolt Brecht in Context by Stephen Brockmann Pdf

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century. It explores the specific context from which he emerged in imperial Germany during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as Brecht's response to the turbulent German history of the twentieth century: World Wars One and Two, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi dictatorship, the experience of exile, and ultimately the division of Germany into two competing political blocs divided by the postwar Iron Curtain. Throughout this turbulence, and in spite of it, Brecht managed to remain extraordinarily productive, revolutionizing the theater of the twentieth century and developing a new approach to language and performance. Because of his unparalleled radicalism and influence, Brecht remains controversial to this day. This book – with a Foreword by Mark Ravenhill – lays out in clear and accessible language the shape of Brecht's contribution and the reasons for his ongoing influence.

Author : Loren Kruger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521817080

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Post-Imperial Brecht by Loren Kruger Pdf

Post-Imperial Brecht challenges prevailing views of Brecht's theatre and politics. Kruger focuses much of her analysis in regions where Brecht has had special resonance, including East Germany, and South Africa, where Brechtian philosophy has been vigorously employed in the anti-apartheid movement. Kruger also analyses political interpretations of Brecht in light of other key dramatists, including Heiner MÜller and Athol Fugard. The book also examines Brechtian influence on writers and philosophers such as Adorno, Benjamin, and Barthes.

Author : Siegfried Mews,Herbert Knust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015002134131

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Essays on Brecht: Theater and Politics by Siegfried Mews,Herbert Knust Pdf

Author : Sarah Bryant-Bertail
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571131868

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Space and Time in Epic Theater by Sarah Bryant-Bertail Pdf

The development of epic theater before, during, and after Brecht's time, and analysis of epic productions, showing the form's continued relevance.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408177822

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Measures Taken and Other Lehrstucke by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

The Lehrstücke (or 'learning-plays') lie at the heart of Brechtian theatre. Written during 1929 and 1930, years of far-reaching political and economic upheaveal in Germany and the period of Brecht's most sharply Communist works, these short plays show an abrupt rejection of most of the trappings of conventional theatre. The Lehrstücke are spare and highly formalized pieces intended for performance by amateurs, on the principle that the moral and political lessons contained in them can best be taught by participation in an actual production. There is nothing in the drama of the twentieth century to match the precision of their language and the economy of their theatrical technique.