Brecht held a Marxist point of view‚ and while living in Germany during the reign of Hitler he was exiled on accord of his heavily controversial plays. After being exiled from Germany‚ Bertolt Brecht moved to America where his most famous play today; Mother Courage and her children. ...
One of Brecht's favourite sayings was: 'The proof of the pudding is in the eating.' Although his essays, poems and plays tell us a great deal about both his aesthetics and his dramatic theories, it is to his practice (and to that of others engaged in performing his work) that we mus...
13In the theatre he wrote for various publicsor non-publics, plays as different asThe MotherandSt Joan of the Stockyards,making the years between1928and1933among the most productive of hislife.14West German filmmakers, on the side of the avant-garde and among the so-called author’s cinema...
Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer whose epic theater departed from the conventions of theatrical illusion and developed the drama as a social and ideological forum for leftist causes. His notable plays include The Threepenn
The plays of Brecht’s exile years became famous in the author’s own and other productions: notable among them areMutter Courage und ihre Kinder(1941;Mother Courage and Her Children), achronicle playof theThirty Years’ War;Leben des Galilei(1943;The Life of Galileo);Der gute Mensch von ...
The plays of Brecht’s exile years became famous in the author’s own and other productions: notable among them are Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1941; Mother Courage and Her Children), a chronicle play of the Thirty Years’ War; Leben des Galilei (1943; The Life of Galileo); Der gut...