[Brecht Collected Plays 03] • St Joan · Mother · Lindbergh's Flight · Baden-Baden · He Said Yes · Decision · Exception and Rule · Horatians and Cur (World Classics) by Brecht, Bertolt -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Contents Introduction Chronology The Plays Lindbergh’s Flight The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent He Said Yes/He Said No

Later additions and substitutions by Brecht He Said No

The Decision Textual variants The Mother The Exception and the Rule The Horatians and the Curiatians St Joan of the Stockyards Notes and Variants Lindbergh’s Flight Texts by Brecht, Hindemith and the organisers

From a letter to Ernst Hardt Music for radio To be projected Introductory speech Note to the text Explanatory notes To the South German Radio, Stuttgart Prologue, to be spoken before broadcasting ‘The Ocean Flight’

Editorial Notes The Baden-Baden lesson on Consent Texts by Brecht and Hindemith

About the ‘Lehrstück’ Music for amateurs Programme of the premiere Introduction to Hindemith’s piano score Note Note to the text printed in Versucbe 2

Editorial Notes He Said Yes/He Said No Texts by Brecht, Waley, Weill, Hauptmann

Note to the text Note on Taniko and Ikeniye From an interview with Elisabeth Hauptmann From an interview with Kurt Weill Weill on his school opera From a report of discussions about He Said Yes at the Karl Marx School, Neukólln

Editorial Notes

The message of agreement From Hauptmann’s translation to the double text The order of events

The Decision Texts by Brecht and Eisler

Note to the text Open letter to the Artistic Board of the ‘Neue Musik’, Berlin, 1930 Note to the audience Rehearsing The Decision Some tips for rehearsal of The Decision Questionnaire for the audience Letter of 21.4.1956 to Paul Patera

Editorial Notes

From He Said Yes to The Decision The order of events

THE MOTHER Texts by Brecht and Eisler

Note on The Mother Song of the Mother on the heroic death of the coward Vessovchikov Notes Optional choruses Hanns Eisler on the Theatre Union’s production of Mother Recommendations to Theatre Union Projections, 1932 and 1935 Memorandum about the distortion and mutilation of the text Discussion Jerome/Brecht/Eisler Letter to the New York workers’ company Theatre Union’ about the play The Mother

Editorial Notes

Structure and characters Details of changes and cuts since 1933 Appended scenes

(a) The Small Store or The Paper Overcoat (b) Scene in a Railway Carriage

The Exception and the Rule Texts by Brecht Note on The Exception and the Rule

Notes Speech

Editorial Notes The Horatians and the Curiatians Texts by Brecht

Note to the text Preparatory work on The Horatians and the Curiatians Traditional Chinese acting Instruction for the actors

Editorial Notes St Joan of the Stockyards Texts by Brecht

Preliminary note to the stage script Note to Saint Joan of the Stockyards Meaning of Saint Joan of the Stockyards Is Saint Joan of the Stockyards a realistic work?

Notes to Saint Joan of the Stockyards About the drama’s way of depicting business matters Building up a part by the inductive method Draft for a radio talk Notes of Uncertain Authorship

Editorial Notes

General structure Incomplete material Final scene of the stage script From the stage script to the Versuche edition of 1932 Svendborg amendments and additions

Footnote

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