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Tables of Contents for Brecht on Theatre
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xiii
PART ONE 1918-1932
Frank Wedekind
3
1
A Reckoning
4
2
Emphasis on Sport
6
4
Three Cheers for Shaw
10
4
Conversation with Bert Brecht
14
4
A Radio Speech
18
2
Shouldn't we Abolish Aesthetics?
20
2
The Epic Theatre and its Difficulties
22
2
Last Stage: Oedipus
24
2
A Dialogue about Acting
26
3
On Form and Subject-Matter
29
2
An Example of Paedagogics
31
2
The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre
33
10
The Literarization of the Theatre
43
4
The Film, the Novel and Epic Theatre
47
4
The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication
51
2
The Question of Criteria for Judging Acting
53
4
Indirect Impact of the Epic Theatre
57
8
PART TWO 1933-1947
Interview with an Exile
65
4
Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction
69
8
The German Drama: pre-Hitler
77
4
Criticism of the New York Production of Die Mutter
81
3
On the Use of Music in an Epic Theatre
84
7
Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting
91
9
Notes to Die Rundkopfe und die Spitzkopfe
100
4
On Gestic Music
104
3
The Popular and the Realistic
107
8
On Rhymeless Verse with Irregular Rhythms
115
6
The Street Scene
121
9
On Experimental Theatre
130
6
New Technique of Acting
136
12
Two Essays on Unprofessional Acting
148
5
Notes on the Folk Play
153
4
Alienation Effects in the Narrative Pictures of the Elder Brueghel
157
2
A Little Private Tuition for my Friend Max Gorelik
159
4
Building up a Part: Laughton's Galileo
163
6
`Der Messingkauf': an editorial note
169
10
PART THREE 1947-1948
A Short Organum for the Theatre
179
30
PART FOUR 1948-1956
Masterful Treatment of a Model
209
6
From the Mother Courage Model
215
7
Does Use of the Model Restrict the Artist's Freedom's
222
4
Formal Problems Arising from the Theatre's New Content
226
4
Stage Design for the Epic Theatre
230
3
From a Letter to an Actor
233
3
Some of the Things that can be Learnt from Stanislavsky
236
3
Theaterarbeit: an editorial note
239
8
Notes on Erwin Strittmatter's Play Katzgraben
247
5
Study of the First Scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus
252
14
Cultural Policy and Academy of Arts
266
4
Conversation about being Forced into Empathy
270
2
Classical Status as an Inhibiting Factor
272
2
Can the Present-day World be Reproduced by Means of Theatre?
274
2
Appendices to the `Short Organum'
276
5
`Dialectics in the Theatre': an editorial note
281
2
Our London Season
283
1
Other English Translations
284
2
Index
286