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Bentley on Brecht

Bentley on Brecht
Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2008-03-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0810123932

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Recipient of 2007 The Robert Chesley Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in Playwriting Winner of 2006 International Association of Theatre Critics Thalia Prize Winner of 2006 Village Voice OBIE Awards Lifetime Achievement Award Since their first meeting in Santa Monica, California in 1942, Eric Bentley has been Bertolt Brecht's other, offstage voice. Just as Brecht reshaped modern theater, Bentley's writings on Brecht helped shape his reputation in the United States and the rest of the world. Bentley on Brecht represents a lifetime of critical and personal thoughts on both Brecht as friend and Brecht as influential literary figure. Brought together in this volume are Brecht-Bentley correspondence, Bentley's personal recollections of his years with Brecht, including Charles Laughton's production of Galileo, Brecht's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and Bentley's analysis of Brecht's plays.


The Brecht-Eisler Song Book

The Brecht-Eisler Song Book
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: Oak Publications
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1967-06-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1783234415

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Here are 42 poems by Bertolt Brecht, including several from various plays, with musical settings by Hanns Eisler. Eric Bentley has compiled the collection, created singable English translations (which appear along with the German), and supplied historical notes on the songs. Earl Robinson has supervised the editing of the music, supplied piano arrangements where necessary, and added guitar accompaniments for all songs.


The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht

The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Total Pages: 1456
Release: 2018-12-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 087140768X

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A landmark literary event, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht is the most extensive English translation of Brecht’s poetry to date. Widely celebrated as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht was also, as George Steiner observed, “that very rare phenomenon, a great poet, for whom poetry is an almost everyday visitation and drawing of breath.” Hugely prolific, Brecht also wrote more than two thousand poems—though fewer than half were published in his lifetime, and early translations were heavily censored. Now, award-winning translators David Constantine and Tom Kuhn have heroically translated more than 1,200 poems in the most comprehensive English collection of Brecht’s poetry to date. Written between 1913 and 1956, these poems celebrate Brecht’s unquenchable “love of life, the desire for better and more of it,” and reflect the technical virtuosity of an artist driven by bitter and violent politics, as well as by the untrammeled forces of love and erotic desire. A monumental achievement and a reclamation, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht is a must-have for any lover of twentieth-century poetry.


Die Hauspostille

Die Hauspostille
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1991
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780802132451

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Book jacket: Known primarily as a dramatist, Bertolt Brecht was also a gifted poet. These fifty poems--among them many ballads that later became part of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, and Baal--reveal the tremendous range and versatility of Brecht's expression. His first and best book of poetry, Manual of Piety uses the traditional form of devotional literature to provide both an irreverant spoof and a serious critique of the post-World War I European (and more specifically, German) culture that gave rise to fascism. His characteristically sly wit combines with mordant social commentary to make Manual of Piety Brecht at his most hilarious--and also his most brutally incisive.


Parables for the Theatre

Parables for the Theatre
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2001-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780141185392

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The Life of the Drama

The Life of the Drama
Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1991
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781557831101

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(Applause Books). "Eric Bentley's radical new look at the grammar of theatre...is a work of exceptional virtue... The book justifies its title by being precisely about the ways in which life manifests itself in the theatre...This is a book to be read again and again." Frank Kermode, The New York Review of Books


Thinking about the Playwright

Thinking about the Playwright
Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1987
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810107335

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Essays discuss Ibsen, Strindberg, O'Neill, Brecht, Shaw, acting styles, theater controversies, translation, regional drama, and the nature of theater.


The Brecht Commentaries, 1943-1980

The Brecht Commentaries, 1943-1980
Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: New York : Grove Press ; London : Eyre Methuen
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1981
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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The Theory of the Modern Stage

The Theory of the Modern Stage
Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1997
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781557832795

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(Applause Books). Including Antoin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, E. Gordon Craig, Luigi Pirandello, Konstantin Stanislavsky, W. B. Yeats, and Emile Zolaing.


The Caucasian Chalk Circle

The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2015-03-16
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 140816101X

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This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict over possession of a child features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature. Brecht projects an ancient Chinese story onto a realistic setting in Soviet Georgia. In a theme that echoes the Judgment of Solomon, two women argue over the possession of a child; thanks to the unruly judge, Azdak (one of Brecht's most vivid creations) natural justice is done and the peasant Grusha keeps the child she loves, even though she is not its mother. Written in exile in the United States during the Second World War, The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a politically-charged, much-revived and complex example of Brecht's epic theatre. This volume contains expert notes on the author's life and work, historical and political background to the play, photographs from stage productions and a glossary of difficult words and phrases. It features the acclaimed translation by James and Tania Stern with W. H. Auden.