Brecht on Performance : Messingkauf and Modelbooks

Brecht, Bertolt; Kuhn, Tom (EDT); Giles, Steve (EDT); Silberman, Marc (EDT); Ryland, Charlotte (TRN)

ISBN 10: 1408154552 / ISBN 13: 9781408154557

Verlag: Methuen Drama, 2014

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 19089463-n

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Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings for directors and theatre practitioners, including an entirely new commentated edition of Brecht's dialogues and essays about the practice of theatre, known as the Messingkauf, or Buying Brass, as well as rehearsal and production records from Brecht's work on productions of Life of Galileo, Antigone, Mother Courage and others.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

Tom Kuhn is Professor of 20th century German Literature at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK, and General Editor of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama's Brecht publications.

Marc Silberman is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. He is the co-editor of the completely revised and updated third edition of Brecht on Theatre and of Brecht on Performance (both 2014), and editor of Brecht on Film & Radio.

Steve Giles is Professor Emeritus of German Studies and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has contributed to Brecht on Art and Politics (Methuen Drama, 2003) as well as authoring books on Modern European Drama and Critical Theory.

John Willett (1917-2002) was the greatest English language authority on Brecht the writer and man of the theatre. The foremost translator and editor of Brecht's drama, poetry, letters, diaries, theatrical essays and fiction, Willett produced a dozen volumes for Methuen Drama on the greatest modern German writer.

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Titel: Brecht on Performance : Messingkauf and ...
Verlag: Methuen Drama
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New