Bertolt Brecht

John Willett

Selections from the celebrated German playwright's writings on the nature and direction of twentieth-century drama

The Development of an Aesthetic

Brecht on Theatre

Tom Kuhn

Jenny Stevens

Chris Megson

Charlotte Ryland

The Good Person Of Szechwan

Ralph Manheim

Mother Courage and Her Children

Heartfield Versus Hitler

Presents the full text of the play satirizing the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, and includes a critical analysis of the text, notes for actors, and editorial notes on popular production variations.

The Threepenny Opera

New edition, revised for the centenary of Brecht's birth, containing additional updated material In this classic study, John Willett sets in context not only Brecht the theatre practitioner but Brecht the writer and man of his time. Through chapters on Brecht's relationships and attitudes to contemporary politics, English and American literature, Expressionism, music, art and cinema, as well as to such figures as Auden, Kipling and Piscator, the book presents a detailed and wide-ranging account of one of the most significant men of this century. "An outstanding introduction to its subject. . . will immeasurably enrich Brechtians young and old, especially those who think they know it all" (Times Educational Supplement); "Economical, witty and unpretentious in a way that Brecht would have liked, but immensely well-informed and thoroughly documented, seems certain to become required reading for anyone seriously interested in the dramatist" (London Review of Books); "An extraordinarily rich volume, which succeeds in being packed but uncrowded" (New Statesman)

Brecht In Context

A Study from Eight Aspects

The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht

The period between the end of World War I and Hitler's ascension to power witnessed an unprecedented cultural explosion that embraced the whole of Europe but was, above all, centered in Germany. Germany housed architect Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus movement; playwrights Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator; artists Hans Richter, George Grosz, John Heartfield, and Hannah Hoch; composers Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schonberg, and Kurt Weill; and dozens of others. In Art and Politics in the Weimar Period , John Willett provides a brilliant explanation of the aesthetic and political currents which made Germany the focal point of a new, down-to-earth, socially committed cultural movement that drew a significant measure of inspiration from revolutionary Russia, left-wing social thought, American technology, and the devastating experience of war.

The New Sobriety, 1917-1933

Art and Politics in the Weimar Period

Expressionism

Hugh Rorrison

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Bertolt Brecht Journals

Der gute Mensch von Sezuan. The Good Person of Szechwan ... Translated by John Willett

This study of Brecht's theatre from eight different aspects was first published in 1959. The book aims to explain the difficult aspects of his ideology and political leanings in a straightforward manner. It traces his stylistic development as a playwright and stage director through each of his major plays and explains his evolving notion of epic theatre within the political and social climate of the 1920s, Marxism, Nazism and post-war Communism.

The Theatre Of Bertolt Brecht

Popski; a Life of Vladimir Peniakoff, D.S.O., M.C.

Der Gute Mensch Von Sezuan. The Good Person of Szechwan ... Translated by John Willett

John Willett

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