Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett

Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

Bertolt Brecht, John Willett

352 pages first pub 1964 (editions)

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This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation...

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