The Cambridge Companion to Brecht (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521673844 ISBN 13: 9780521673846

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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 edition introduces more 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 additional 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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Book Description

This edition retains much that was in the original Companion, and also introduces additional voices and themes, including Brecht's unique approach to dramaturgy. A detailed calendar of Brecht's life and work and a bibliography of English criticism complete this provocative overview of a writer who constantly aimed to provoke.

About the Author

Peter Thomson is Professor of Drama at the University of Exeter.

Glendyr Sacks was formerly a lecturer in the Drama department at the University of Exeter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521673844
• ISBN 13: 9780521673846
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 366
• Editor: Thomson Peter