The second revised edition of this study in which Willett sets in context not only Brecht the theatre practitioner but Brecht the writer and man of his time, with chapters on his relationships and attitudes to politics, English and American literature, Expressionism, music, art and cinema, as well as to figures such as Auden, Kipling and Piscator.
John Willett (1917-2002) was the greatest English language authority on Brecht the writer and man of the theatre. The foremost translator and editor of Brecht's drama, poetry, letters, diaries, theatrical essays and fiction, Willett produced a dozen volumes for Methuen Drama on the greatest modern German writer.
"An outstanding introduction to its subject. . . will immeasurably
enrich Brechtians young and old, especially those who think they
know it all"
*Times Educational Supplement*
"Economical, witty and unpretentious in a way that Brecht would
have liked, but immensely well-informed and thoroughly documented,
seems certain to become required reading for anyone seriously
interested in the dramatist"
*London Review of Books*
An extraordinarily rich volume, which succeeds in being packed but
uncrowded
*New Statesman*
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