Brecht on Theatre

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-effects in directing acting and writing and discusses among other works The Threepenny Opera Mahagonny Mother Courage Puntila and Galileo. Also included is A Short Organum for the Theatre Brecht''s most complete exposition of his revolutionary philosophy of drama. Translated and edited by John Willett Brecht on Theater is essential to an understanding of one of the twentieth century''s most influential dramatists.