Exacting scholarship and balanced judgement of this biography will help ensure its place as the definitive work of its kind.[...]

Winner, 2006 International Association of Theatre Critics Thalia Prize
Recipient, 2007 The Robert Chesley Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in Playwriting
Winner, 2006 Village Voice OBIE Awards Lifetime Achievement Award
Since their first meeting in Santa Monica, California in 1942, Er[...]

Few authors have had such a dramatic effect as Bertolt Brecht. His work has helped to shape a generation of writers, theatergoers, and thinkers. His plays are studied worldwide as texts that changed the face of theater.The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a parable inspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle[...]

Even in Germany, the scope and force of Bertolt Brecht's poetry did not become apparent until long after his death and today, many of his more than 2,000 poems have never appeared in English. Love Poems, the first volume in a monumental undertaking by David Constantine and Tom Kuhn to translate his [...]

(Vocal Selections). The triumphant presentation of this work ran for five years in New York. Includes: "Ballad of Mack the Knife." Approved by the Kurt Weill Society.[...]

In this radical and deliberately controversial re-reading of Brecht, first published in 1989, Elizabeth Wright takes a new view of the playwright, giving us a more 'Brechtian' reading than so far achieved and making his work historically relevant here and now. The author discusses in detail Brecht's[...]

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 the stage. It crystallises and makes concrete many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writ[...]

A Student Edition of Brecht's classic parable, set in an unjust society where good can only survive by means of evil. The text of the play is accompanied by an extensive commentary and study notes.[...]

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 unique bilingual edition allows students to compare the original German text with a translation by one of the world's leading playwrights, Tony[...]

This first English-language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the 20th century's most controversial cultural icons. Drawing on letters, diaries and much unpublished material, Parker offers a rich and enthralling account of Brecht's life [...]

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-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade in the 1930s. The satirical allegor[...]