Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

This selection of Bertolt Brecht ‘s critical writing charts the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics over four decades. The volume demonstrates how the theories of Epic Theatre and Alienation evolved and contains notes and essays on the staging of The Threepenny Opera , Mahagonny , Mother Courage , Puntila , Galileo , and many others of his plays. Also included is A Short Organum for the Theatre , Brecht’s most complete statement of his revolutionary philosophy of the theatre.