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COVER PAGE BRECHT SOURCEBOOK WORLDS OF PERFORMANCE

OTHER TITLES IN THE SERIES:

TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT PAGE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION

THE ESSAYS NOTES

PART I: BRECHT’S AESTHETIC THEORIES

1: ON CHINESE ACTING

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2: THEATRE FOR LEARNING

EPIC THEATRE TWO OUTLINES DIDACTIC THEATRE THEATRE AND SCIENCE IS THE EPIC THEATRE A SORT OF “MORAL INSTITUTION”? CAN EPIC THEATRE BE PERFORMED ANYWHERE? NOTES

3: AN EPIC THEATRE CATECHISM 4: ARE STANISLAVSKY AND BRECHT COMMENSURABLE?

SOME OF THE THINGS THAT CAN BE LEARNT FROM STANISLAVSKY NOTES

5: BRECHT’S CONCEPT OF GESTUS AND THE AMERICAN PERFORMANCE TRADITION

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6: BEYOND BOURGEOIS THEATRE

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PART II: BRECHT’S THEORIES IN PRACTICE

7: GESTUS IN MUSIC

NOTE

8: COMPOSING FOR BB: SOME COMMENTS

ABOUT THE MUSIC FOR THE CHALK CIRCLE

9: ACTORS ON BRECHT: THE MUNICH YEARS

I.: DRUMS IN THE NIGHT II.: MYSTERIES OF A BARBER SHOP III.: IN THE JUNGLE IV.: EDWARD II

10: BERTOLT BRECHT’S J.B.

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11: BADEN LEHRSTÜCK

CHARACTERS I.: REPORT ON FLYING II.: THE FALL III.: INVESTIGATIONS: DOES MAN HELP MAN? IV.: THE REFUSAL OF HELP V.: THE CONSULTATION VI.: OBSERVING THE DEAD VII.: THE READING OF THE COMMENTARY VIII.: THE EXAMINATION IX.: PRAISE AND EXPROPRIATION X.: THE EXPULSION XI.: THE AGREEMENT NOTE

12: THE BEGGAR OR THE DEAD DOG (1919)

CHARACTERS

13: THE DIALECTICS OF GALILEO

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15: PROLOGUE TO THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE

SUMMER OF 1945. NOTE

PART III: BRECHT INTERPRETED ABROAD

16: BRECHT AND THE ENGLISH THEATRE 17: THE DEATH OF MOTHER COURAGE 18: BRECHT AND CHICANO THEATRE

I II III IV NOTES

19: BRECHT AND LATIN AMERICA’S “THEATRE OF REVOLUTION”

NOTES REFERENCES

20: POLITICAL DISPLACEMENTS: TOWARD HISTORICIZING BRECHT IN JAPAN, 1932–1998

PROLOGUE: SEPTEMBER 1998, TOKYO, JAPAN ACT I: MARCH 1932, TOKYO, JAPAN ACT II: MAY 1953, TOKYO, JAPAN ACT III: OCTOBER 1968, SHINJUKU, TOKYO, JAPAN EPILOGUE: JUNE 1969, TOKYO, JAPAN NOTES REFERENCES

21: THE ACTOR’S INVOLVEMENT: NOTES ON BRECHT—AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSEPH CHAIKIN 22: BRECHTIAN THEORY AND AMERICAN FEMINIST THEATRE

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23: BRECHT, FEMINISM, AND CHINESE THEATRE

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