Brecht on theatre :the development of an aesthetic

• 作者: Brecht, Bertolt,
• 其他作者: Willett, John,
• 出版: New York : Hill and Wang ©1964.
• 版本: [1st ed.].
• 稽核項: 294 pages :illustrations, portraits ;21 cm.
• 標題: Theater.
• ISBN: 041338800X , 9780413388001
• 附註: 美國加州大學柏克萊分校Dunbar H. Ogden教授(賴聲川老師博士論文指導教授)2006年捐贈. Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-285), and index. Part I: 1918-1932 : 1. Frank Wedekind -- 2. A reckoning -- 3. Emphasis on sport -- 4. Three cheers for Shaw -- 5. Conversations with Bert Brecht -- 6. A radio speech -- 7. Shouldn't we abolish aesthetics? -- 8. The epic theatre and its difficulties -- 9. Last stage: Oedipus -- 10. A dialogue about acting -- 11. On form and subject-matter -- 12. An example of pedagogics -- 13. The modern theatre is the epic theatre -- 14. The radio as an apparatus of communication -- 15. The question of criteria for judging acting -- 16. Indirect impact of the epic theatre -- Part II: 1933-1947 : 17. Interview with an exile -- 18. Theatre for pleasure or theatre for instruction -- 19. The German drama : pre-Hitler -- 20. Criticism of the New York production of 'Die Mutter' -- 21. On the use of music in an epic theatre -- 22. Alienation effects in Chinese acting -- 23. Notes to 'Die Rundkopfe und die Spitzkopfe' -- 24. On Gestic music -- 25. The popular and the realistic -- 26. On rhymeless verse with irregular rhythms -- 27. The street scene -- 28. On experimental theatre -- 29. New technique of acting -- 30. Two essays on unprofessional acting -- 31. Notes on the folk play -- 32. Alienation effects in the narrative pictures of the Elder Brueghel -- 33. A little private tuition for my friend Max Gorelik -- 34. Building up a part : Laughton's Galileo -- 35. 'Der Messingkauf': an editorial note -- Part III: 1947-1948 : 36. A short organum for the theatre -- Part IV: 1948-1956 : 37. Masterful treatment of a model -- 38. From the 'Mother Courage' model -- 39. Does use of the model restrict the artist's freedom? -- 40. Formal problems arising from the theatre's new content -- 41. Stage design for the epic theatre -- 42. From a letter to an actor -- 43. Some of the things that can be learnt from Stanislavsky -- 44. 'Theaterarbeit' : an editorial note -- 45. Notes on Erwin Strittmatter's play 'Katzgraben' -- 46. Study of the first scene of Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus' -- 47. Cultural policy and academy of arts -- 48. Conversation about being forced into empathy -- 49. Classical status as an inhibiting factor -- 50. Can the present-day world be reproduced by means of theatre? -- 51. Appendices to the 'Short Organum' -- 52. 'Dialects in the Theatre' : an editorial note -- 53. Our London season.
• 摘要: "This selection from Brecht's notes and theoretical writing is meant to give English-language readers the main texts and set these in chronological order so as to show how his ideas evolved, gradually forming a quite personal aesthetic which applied to other spheres besides the theater. Too often the theory is treated as if it were a coherent whole which sprang from Brecht's head ready-made. The endless working and re-working which it underwent, the nagging at a particular notion until it could be fitted in, the progress from an embryo to an often very differently formulated final concept, the amendments and after-thoughts; all this is something that tends to be overlooked. The translation tries to convey the flavour to Brecht's style as it too evolved, from the aggressiveness of the first essays to the slightly forced formality of some of his late pronouncements."--Introduction , 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.--Publisher website
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