Bertolt Brecht/Bibliography

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Primary sources

Essays, diaries, and journals

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• Brecht, Bertolt (1965). Messingkauf Dialogues. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-38890-5. 
• (1990) Letters 1913–1956. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-51050-6. 

Drama, poetry, and prose

• Seven Plays by Bertolt Brecht, 1961. Ed. Eric Bentley. New York: Grove Press. In the Swamp, A Man's A Man, Saint Joan of the Stockyards, Mother Courage, Galileo, The Good Woman of Setzuan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Template:OCLC
• Brecht, Bertolt. 1994a. Collected Plays: One. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. Bertolt Brecht: Plays, Poetry, Prose. London: Methuen. Baal, Drums in the Night, In the Jungle of Cities, The Life of Edward II in England, and Five One-Act Plays. Template:ISBN.
• 1994b. Collected Plays: Two. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. London: Methuen. Man Equals Man, the Elephant Calf, The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, and The Seven Deadly Sins. Template:ISBN.
• 1997. Collected Plays: Three. Ed. John Willett. London: Methuen. St Joan of the Stockyards, the Mother, and Six Lehrstöcke (Lindbergh's Flight, The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent, He Said Yes / He Said No, The Decision, The Exception and the Rule, and The Horatians and the Curiatians) Template:ISBN.
• 2003b. Collected Plays: Four. Ed. Tom Kuhn and John Willett. London: Methuen. Round heads and pointed heads, Dansen, How much is your iron?, The trial of Lucullus, Fear and misery of the Third Reich, and Señora Carrar's rifles Template:ISBN.
• 1995. Collected Plays: Five. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. London: Methuen. Life of Galileo and Mother Courage and Her Children Template:ISBN.
• 1994c. Collected Plays: Six. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. London: Methuen. The Good Person of Szechwan, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and Mr Puntila and his Man Matti Template:ISBN.
• 1994d. Collected Plays: Seven. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. London: Methuen. The Visions of Simone Machard, Schweyk in the Second World War, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and The Duchess of Malfi Template:ISBN.
• 2004. Collected Plays: Eight. Ed. Tom Kuhn and David Constantine. London: Methuen. The Antigone of Sophocles, The Days of the Commune, and Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress Template:ISBN.
• 1972. Collected Plays: Nine. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. New York: Vintage. The Tutor; Coriolanus; The Trial of Joan of Arc at Rouen, 1431; Don Juan; and Trumpets and Drums Template:ISBN.
• 2000b. Poems: 1913–1956. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. London: Methuen. Template:ISBN.
• 2019. The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht. Ed. Tom Kuhn and David Constantine. New York: Liveright Publishing. Template:ISBN
• 1983. Short Stories: 1921–1946. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. Trans. Yvonne Kapp, Hugh Rorrison and Antony Tatlow. London and New York: Methuen. Template:ISBN.
• 2001. Stories of Mr. Keuner. Trans. Martin Chalmers. San Francisco: City Lights. Template:ISBN.

Secondary sources

• (1998) “Brecht, Bertolt”, The Cambridge Guide to Theater. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-43437-8. 
• Benjamin, Walter (1983). Understanding Brecht. London and New York: Verso. ISBN 0-902308-99-8. 
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• Bürger, Peter (1984). Theory of the Avant-Garde. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-1068-1. 
• Culbert, David (March 1995). "Joseph Goebbels and his diaries". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 15: 143–149. DOI:10.1080/01439689500260091. Research Blogging.

• Ewen, Frederic (1967). Bertolt Brecht: His Life, His Art and His Times, Citadel Press Book. New York: Carol Publishing Group. 
• Hayman, Ronald (1983). Brecht: A Biography. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-78206-1. 
• Jameson, Fredric (1998). Brecht and Method. London and New York: Verso. ISBN 1-85984-809-5. 
• (1998) Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-7486-0973-3. 
• McDowell, W. Stuart (Winter 1977). "A Brecht-Valentin Production: Mysteries of a Barbershop". Performing Arts Journal 1: 2–14. DOI:10.2307/3245245. Research Blogging.

• McDowell, W. Stuart (2000). “Acting Brecht: The Munich Years”, The Brecht Sourcebook. London and New York: Routledge, 71–83. ISBN 0-415-20043-1. 
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• Smith, Iris (1991). "Brecht and the Mothers of Epic Theater". Theater Journal 43: 491–505. DOI:10.2307/3207978. Research Blogging.

• Taxidou, Olga (November 1995). "Crude Thinking: John Fuegi and Recent Brecht Criticism". New Theater Quarterly XI: 381–384. DOI:10.1017/S0266464X00009350. Research Blogging.

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• (1994) The Cambridge Companion to Brecht. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-41446-6. 
• Völker, Klaus (1976). Brecht: A Biography. New York: Seabury Press.  Translation of Template:Ill: Bertolt Brecht, Eine Biographie. Munich and Vienna: Carl Hanser Verlag. Template:ISBN.
• Willett, John (1967). The Theater of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects, 3rd revised. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-34360-X. 
• Willett, John (1978). Art and Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety 1917–1933. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80724-6. 
• Willett, John (1998). Brecht in Context: Comparative Approaches, revised. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-72310-0. 
• (1970) “Introduction”, Collected Plays: 'One' by Bertolt Brecht. London: Methuen, vii–xvii. ISBN 0-416-03280-X. 
• Williams, Raymond (1993). Drama from Ibsen to Brecht. London: Hogarth, 277–290. ISBN 0-7012-0793-0. 
• Wright, Elizabeth (1989). Postmodern Brecht: A Re-Presentation. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-02330-0. 

Further reading

• [Anon.] 1952. "Brecht Directs". In Directors on Directing: A Source Book to the Modern Theater. Ed. Toby Cole and Helen Krich Chinoy. Rev. ed. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1963. Template:ISBN. 291- [Account of Brecht in rehearsal from anonymous colleague published in Theaterarbeit]
• (2015) Bertolt Brecht et Fritz Lang : le nazisme n'a jamais été éradiqué. LettMotif. ISBN 978-2-3671-6122-8. 
• Davies, Steffan (2009). Davies, Steffan: Alfred Döblin: Paradigms of Modernism. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-021769-8. 
• Demčišák, Ján. 2012. "Queer Reading von Brechts Frühwerk". Marburg: Tectum Verlag. Template:ISBN.
• Demetz, Peter, ed. 1962. "From the Testimony of Berthold Brecht: Hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 30 October 1947". Brecht: A Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Views Ser. Eaglewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Template:ISBN. 30–42.
• Diamond, Elin. 1997. Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theater. London and New York: Routledge. Template:ISBN.
• Eagleton, Terry. 1985. "Brecht and Rhetoric". New Literary History 16.3 (Spring). 633–638.
• Eaton, Katherine B. "Brecht's Contacts with the Theater of Meyerhold". in Comparative Drama 11.1 (Spring 1977)3–21. Reprinted in 1984. Drama in the Twentieth Century ed. C. Davidson. New York: AMS Press, 1984. Template:ISBN. 203–221. 1979. "Die Pionierin und Feld-Herren vorm Kreidekreis. Bemerkungen zu Brecht und Tretjakow". in Brecht-Jahrbuch 1979. Ed. J. Fuegi, R. Grimm, J. Hermand. Suhrkamp, 1979. 1985 19–29. The Theater of Meyerhold and Brecht. Connecticut and New York: Greenwood Press. Template:ISBN.
• Eddershaw, Margaret. 1982. "Acting Methods: Brecht and Stanislavski". In Brecht in Perspective. Ed. Graham Bartram and Anthony Waine. London: Longman. Template:ISBN. 128–144.
• Esslin, Martin. 1960. Brecht: The Man and His Work. New York: Doubleday. Template:ISBN, first published in 1959 as Brecht: A Choice of Evils. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode.
• Fuegi, John. 1994. "The Zelda Syndrome: Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann". In Thomson and Sacks (1994, 104–116).
• Fuegi, John. 2002. Brecht and Company: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama. New York: Grove. Template:ISBN.
• Giles, Steve. 1998. "Marxist Aesthetics and Cultural Modernity in Der Dreigroschenprozeß". Bertolt Brecht: Centenary Essays. Ed. Steve Giles and Rodney Livingstone. German Monitor 41. Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi. Template:ISBN. 49–61.
• Giles, Steve. 1997. Bertolt Brecht and Critical Theory: Marxism, Modernity and the Threepenny Lawsuit. Bern: Lang. Template:ISBN.
• Glahn, Philip, 2014. Bertolt Brecht. London: Reaktion Books. Template:ISBN.
• Jacobs, Nicholas and Prudence Ohlsen, eds. 1977. Bertolt Brecht in Britain. London: IRAT Services Ltd and TQ Publications. Template:ISBN.
• Katz, Pamela. 2015. The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. Template:ISBN.
• Krause, Duane. 1995. "An Epic System". In Acting (Re)considered: Theories and Practices. Ed. Phillip B. Zarrilli. 1st ed. Worlds of Performance Ser. London: Routledge. Template:ISBN. 262–274.
• Leach, Robert. 1994. "Mother Courage and Her Children". In Thomson & Sacks 1994, pp. 128–138.
• Giuseppe Leone, "Bertolt Brecht, ripropose l'eterno conflitto dell'intellettuale fra libertà di ricerca e condizionamenti del potere", su "Ricorditi...di me" in "Lecco 2000", Lecco, June 1998.
• (1983) Bertolt Brecht in America. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691013947. 
• McBride, Patrizia. "De-Moralizing Politics: Brecht's Early Aesthetics." Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 82.1 (2008): 85–111.
• Milfull, John. 1974. From Baal to Keuner. The "Second Optimism" of Bertolt Brecht, Bern and Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
• Mitter, Schomit. 1992. "To Be And Not To Be: Bertolt Brecht and Peter Brook". Systems of Rehearsal: Stanislavsky, Brecht, Grotowski and Brook. London: Routledge. Template:ISBN. 42–77.
• Müller, Heiner. 1990. Germania. Trans. Bernard Schütze and Caroline Schütze. Ed. Sylvère Lotringer. Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Ser. New York: Semiotext(e). Template:ISBN.
• Needle, Jan and Peter Thomson. 1981. Brecht. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Template:ISBN.
• Pabst, G. W. 1984. The Threepenny Opera. Classic Film Scripts Series. London: Lorrimer. Template:ISBN.
• Parker, Stephen. 2014. Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life. London: Methuen Drama. Template:ISBN.
• Reinelt, Janelle. 1990. "Rethinking Brecht: Deconstruction, Feminism, and the Politics of Form". The Brecht Yearbook 15. Ed. Marc Silberman et al. Madison, Wisconsin: The International Brecht Society, University of Wisconsin Press. 99–107.
• Reinelt, Janelle. 1994. "A Feminist Reconsideration of the Brecht/Lukács Debate". Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 7.1 (issue 13). 122–139.
• Rouse, John. 1995. "Brecht and the Contradictory Actor". In Acting (Re)considered: A Theoretical and Practical Guide. Ed. Phillip B. Zarrilli. 2nd ed. Worlds of Performance Series. London: Routledge. Template:ISBN. 248–259.
• (2000) Brecht on Film and Radio. London: Methuen. ISBN 978-1-4081-6987-2. 
• (2003) Brecht on Art and Politics. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-75890-7. 
• Sternberg, Fritz. 1963. Der Dichter und die Ratio: Erinnerungen an Bertolt Brecht. Göttingen: Sachse & Pohl.
• Szondi, Péter. 1965. Theory of the Modern Drama. Ed. and trans. Michael Hays. Theory and History of Literature Series. 29. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. Template:ISBN.
• Taxidou, Olga. 2007. Modernism and Performance: Jarry to Brecht. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. Template:ISBN.
• Thomson, Peter. 2000. "Brecht and Actor Training: On Whose Behalf Do We Act?" In Twentieth Century Actor Training. Ed. Alison Hodge. London and New York: Routledge. Template:ISBN. 98–112.
• Weber, Carl. 1984. "The Actor and Brecht, or: The Truth Is Concrete: Some Notes on Directing Brecht with American Actors". The Brecht Yearbook 13: 63–74.
• Weber, Carl. 1994. "Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble – the Making of a Model". In Thomson and Sacks (1994, 167–184).
• (1993) Journals 1934–1955. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-91282-2. 
• Witt, Hubert, ed. 1975. Brecht As They Knew Him. Trans. John Peet. London: Lawrence and Wishart; New York: International Publishers. Template:ISBN.
• Wizisla, Erdmut. 2009. Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht: The Story of a Friendship. Translated by Christine Shuttleworth. London / New Haven: Libris / Yale University Press. Template:ISBN [Contains a complete translation of the newly discovered minutes of the meetings around the putative journal Krise und Kritik (1931)].
• Womack, Peter (1979), "Brecht: The Search for an Audience", in Bold, Christine (ed.), Cencrastus, no. 1, Autumn 1979, pp. 24–28, Template:Issn
• Youngkin, Stephen D. 2005. The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. University Press of Kentucky. Template:ISBN. [Contains a detailed discussion of the personal and professional friendship between Brecht and film actor Peter Lorre.]