Description
This volume provides a tremendous collection of Bertolt Brecht’s groundbreaking important writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, during which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation-effects in directing, acting, and writing, and discusses, among different works, The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, and Galileo. Also included is “A Short Organum for the Theatre,” Brecht’s so much complete exposition of his revolutionary philosophy of drama.
Translated and edited by John Willett, Brecht on Theater is very important to an working out of one of the most twentieth century’s so much influential dramatists.