Auteur: Brecht Bertolt Brecht

Published in English for the first time, Refugee Conversations is a delightful work that reveals Brecht as a master of comic satire. Written swiftly in the opening years of the Second World War, the …

Published in English for the first time, Refugee Conversations is a delightful work that reveals Brecht as a master of comic satire. Written swiftly in the opening years of the Second World War, the …

Here’s some advice:Don’t ever underestimate Arturo.You’ll be found out and stopped, eventually, Just like I stopped this fuckin’ treachery And better late than never. Now ya see What happens when ya …

Here’s some advice:Don’t ever underestimate Arturo.You’ll be found out and stopped, eventually, Just like I stopped this fuckin’ treachery And better late than never. Now ya see What happens when ya …

Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht’s thinking on theatre and aesthetics. First pu …

Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht’s thinking on theatre and aesthetics. First pu …

Now available in Bloomsbury Revelations series, Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht’s principal writings about the craft of acting and realising texts for …

Now available in Bloomsbury Revelations series, Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht’s principal writings about the craft of acting and realising texts for …

Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht”s principal writings for directors and theatre practitioners, and is suitable for acting schools, directors, actors, …

This Student Edition of Brecht’s anti-war masterpiece features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language …

Brecht’s famous parable, written in exile in 1939-41, shows that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. In it, the gods come to earth in search of enough good people to justify …

This Student Edition of Brecht’s classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discu …

In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from …

In this version of the story of Joan of Arc, Brecht transforms her into ‘Joan Dark’, a member of the ‘Black Straw Hats’ (a Salvation Army-like group) in twentieth century Chicago. The play charts Joa …

‘Those who dismiss Brecht as a yea-sayer to Stalinism are advised to read these journals and moderate their opinion.’ (Paul Bailey, Weekend Telegraph) Brecht”s ‘Work Journals’ cover the period from …

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht”s plays in the English language. Volume One of …

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht”s plays in the English language. This sixth vo …

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht”s plays in the English language. The seventh v …

Described by Brecht as ‘a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all’, Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler – recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago …

From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht’s own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts an …

From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht’s own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts an …

In this version of the story of Joan of Arc, Brecht transforms her into ‘Joan Dark’, a member of the ‘Black Straw Hats’ (a Salvation Army-like group) in twentieth century Chicago. The play charts Joa …

Based on John Gay’s eighteenth century Beggar’s Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society …

Brecht’s famous parable, written in exile in 1939-41, shows that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. In it, the gods come to earth in search of enough good people to justify …

Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht’s classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale – echoed in the Judgement of Solomon – in which two women claim the same child. The m …

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht”s plays in the English language. Volume One of …

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht”s plays in the English language. This second v …

The most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht”s plays in the English language Volume Three of Brecht”s Collected Plays includes St Joan of the Stockyards – a play which recasts St Joa …

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht”s plays in the English language. The fifth vol …

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht”s plays in the English language. This sixth vo …

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht”s plays in the English language. The seventh v …

The Lehrst cke (or ‘learning-plays’) lie at the heart of Brechtian theatre.Written during 1929 and 1930, years of far-reaching political and economic upheaveal in Germany and the period of Brecht’s m …

This version of Brecht’s great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions, adapt …

Described by Brecht as ‘a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all’, Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler – recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago …

Described by Brecht as ‘a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all’, Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler – recast by Brecht into a fictional, small-t …

Described by Brecht as ‘a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all’, Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler – recast by Brecht into a fictional, small-t …

This volume contains Brecht”s post-1950 adaptations of world dramatic classics for the Berliner Ensemble. Brecht”s remodeled versions show all of the great dramatist”s characteristic preoccupation …

Arguably Brecht’s greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist’s extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun.The figure of Galile …

This volume contains Brecht”s post-1950 adaptations of world dramatic classics for the Berliner Ensemble. Brecht”s remodeled versions show all of the great dramatist”s characteristic preoccupation …

Arguably Brecht’s greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist’s extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun.The figure of Galile …

Also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, this is a sequence of twenty-four realistic sketches showing how "ordinary" life under the Nazis was subtly permeated by suspicion and anx …

Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht’s greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo’s her …

Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht’s greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo’s her …

In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from …

Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht’s classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale – echoed in the Judgement of Solomon – in which two women claim the same child. The m …

Based on John Gay’s eighteenth century Beggar’s Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society …

The Lehrst cke (or ‘learning-plays’) lie at the heart of Brechtian theatre.Written during 1929 and 1930, years of far-reaching political and economic upheaveal in Germany and the period of Brecht’s m …

Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht’s best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This translation by Michael Hofmann was publish …

Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht’s best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This translation by Michael Hofmann was publish …

This version of Brecht’s great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions, adapt …

The city burns in the heat of civil war and a servant girl sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child. But when peace is finally restored, the boy’s mother comes to claim him. Calling upon t …

The city burns in the heat of civil war and a servant girl sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child. But when peace is finally restored, the boy’s mother comes to claim him. Calling upon t …

Brecht’s series of twenty-four interconnected playlets describe events which took place in ordinary German households in the 1930s. They dramatise with clinical precision the suspicion and anxiety ex …

Brecht’s series of twenty-four interconnected playlets describe events which took place in ordinary German households in the 1930s. They dramatise with clinical precision the suspicion and anxiety ex …

This Student Edition of Brecht’s anti-war masterpiece features an extensiveintroduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion ofthe context, themes, characters, style and language a …

‘Brecht’s dark, dazzling world-view…makes an absolutely devastating impact. The play is fuelled by the brilliant perception that everyone requires such a dual or split personality to survive.’ Even …

‘Brecht’s dark, dazzling world-view…makes an absolutely devastating impact. The play is fuelled by the brilliant perception that everyone requires such a dual or split personality to survive.’ Even …

This Student Edition of Brecht’s classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discu …

This Student Edition of Brecht’s classic satire on the rise of Hitler features an extensiveintroduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion ofthe context, themes, characters, styl …

This Student Edition of Brecht’s classic satire on the rise of Hitler features an extensiveintroduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion ofthe context, themes, characters, styl …

This Student Edition of Brecht’s satire on the capitalist society of the Weimar Republic features an extensiveintroduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion ofthe context, theme …

This Student Edition of Brecht’s satire on the capitalist society of the Weimar Republic features an extensiveintroduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion ofthe context, theme …

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht”s plays in the English language. This second v …

The most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht”s plays in the English language Volume Three of Brecht”s Collected Plays includes St Joan of the Stockyards – a play which recasts St Joa …

Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht”s classic plays from the 1930s Volume 4 of Brecht”s Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political a …

Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht”s classic plays from the 1930s Volume 4 of Brecht”s Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political a …

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht”s plays in the English language. The fifth vol …

The latest volume in Methuen”s Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English Volume 8 of Brecht”s collected plays contains his last completed plays, from the eight years …

The latest volume in Methuen”s Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English Volume 8 of Brecht”s collected plays contains his last completed plays, from the eight years …

Also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, this is a sequence of twenty-four realistic sketches showing how "ordinary" life under the Nazis was subtly permeated by suspicion and anx …

Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht’s thinking on theatre and aesthetics. First pu …

Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht’s thinking on theatre and aesthetics. First pu …

Described by Brecht as ‘a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all’, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler recast by Brecht into …

Described by Brecht as ‘a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all’, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler recast by Brecht into …

Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th-century innovators in theatre – the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky – and Germany”s greatest poet of the last c …

Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th-century innovators in theatre – the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky – and Germany”s greatest poet of the last c …

Bertolt Brecht”s Me-ti, which remained unpublished in his own lifetime, now appears for the first time in English. Me-ti counselled against ”constructing too complete images of the world”. For thi …

Bertolt Brecht”s Me-ti, which remained unpublished in his own lifetime, now appears for the first time in English. Me-ti counselled against ”constructing too complete images of the world”. For thi …

Bertolt Brecht’s extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar’s efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his planned …

Bertolt Brecht’s extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar’s efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his planned …

This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century”s most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and politics. Here are a cross-sect …

This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century”s most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and politics. Here are a cross-sect …

‘Those who dismiss Brecht as a yea-sayer to Stalinism are advised to read these journals and moderate their opinion.’ (Paul Bailey, Weekend Telegraph) Brecht”s ‘Work Journals’ cover the period from …

Brecht was never inclined to see any of his plays as completely finished, and this volume collects some of the most important theatrical projects and fragments that were always to remain ”works in p …

Brecht was never inclined to see any of his plays as completely finished, and this volume collects some of the most important theatrical projects and fragments that were always to remain ”works in p …

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 unru …

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 unru …

One of Bertolt Brecht’s best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). Based on …

One of Bertolt Brecht’s best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). Based on …