The Cambridge Companion to Brecht (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

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	The Cambridge Companion to Brecht (Cambridge Companions to Literature) Cambridge University Press, 2007 - 364 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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This updated Companion offers students crucial guidance on virtually every aspect of the work of this complex and controversial writer. It brings together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners, and this new edition introduces new voices and themes. The opening essays place Brecht's creative work in its historical and biographical context and are followed by chapters on single texts, from The Threepenny Opera to The Caucasian Chalk Circle, on some early plays and on the Lehrstücke. Other essays analyse Brecht's directing, his poetry, his interest in music and his work with actors. This revised edition also contains new essays on his early experience of cabaret, his significance in the development of film theory and his unique approach to dramaturgy. A detailed calendar of Brecht's life and work and a selective bibliography of English criticism complete this provocative overview of a writer who constantly aimed to provoke.

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The proof of the pudding is in the reading.

The problem with delivering Brecht to an English student audience is the fact that he is such a man of his time, culturally and historically, that the first few lectures end up being as much about 'Sturm und Drang', the Weimer republic and the rise of fascism, as they do about any theory by our Bertie. This wonderfully concise and pragmatic guide has been a real find. Dealing with the magor Brechtian themes and theories in a way that applies them both practically and with due reference to their historical/cultural significance. A real 'must buy' for students and teachers of drama!

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