Bentley on Brecht

Bentley on Brecht PDF Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810123932
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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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.

Bentley on Brecht

Bentley on Brecht PDF Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810123932
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Book Description
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 Life of the Drama

The Life of the Drama PDF Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557831101
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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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

Die Hauspostille

Die Hauspostille PDF Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802132451
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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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.

The Theory of the Modern Stage

The Theory of the Modern Stage PDF Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557832795
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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

Bentley on Brecht

Bentley on Brecht PDF Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Included in this are Bentley's published analyses and commentaries on Brecht's plays, as well as some new thoughts of recent years. Also included is Bentley's highly personal memoir of his years with Brecht; his personal recollections of Charles Laughton's L.A. production of Galileo and Brecht's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Galileo

Galileo PDF Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Dramatizes the effect of Galileo's extraordinary discoveries on those around him, and the choice he had to make when accused of heresy by the Inquisition for stating that the earth revolved around the sun.

The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays

The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays PDF Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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These six plays represent the best and most humorous of Brecht's shorter works. The Jewish Wife is from the Fear and Misery in the Third Reich cycle of one-act plays, which, along with In Search of Justice and The Informer, chromicles the hardships of life in Nazi Germany. The Exception and the Rule, one of Brecht's most popular short works, grimly depicts the consequences of the mutually dependent -- yet inevitable inequitable -- relationship between the priviledged and the poor; it is included here with The Measures Taken and The Elephant Calf. Though all of these ales of horror, ad Eric Bentley calls them, have tragic undertones, they are also infused with farcical absurdities and cosmic irony so characteristic of Brecht's work.

Thinking about the Playwright

Thinking about the Playwright PDF Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810107335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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

Parables for the Theatre

Parables for the Theatre PDF Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780141185392
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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The Caucasian Chalk Circle

The Caucasian Chalk Circle PDF Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140816101X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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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.