Bertolt Brecht's Great Plays

London England: Macmillan. Hardback. Bertolt Brecht's Great Plays. This book provides an introduction to the life and work of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) and detailed studies of four of his most important and popular plays: Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Good Person of Szechwan and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Emphasising particularly the effect of the plays on the stage, these studies are equally suitable for the general reader, for anyone concerned with producing the plays, and for the student of modern literature or drama. Quatations are given in English. After a short biography of Brecht, containing much information hitherto unavailable in English, introductory chapters on Brecht's thought and on his theory and practice of theatre provide that background for the study of the individual plays. Each of these is summarased in the way Brecht himself thought important for analysis, and its structure, its lessons, its style and possible staging are discussed. 195 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Very Good. Cloth. Reprint. 1979.