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Criticism and Interpretation:
General and Handbook:
- Benjamin, Walter. Versuche über
Brecht. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1966.
(Understanding Brecht. Translated
Anna Bostock. London: NLB, 1973.)
- Bentley, Eric.The Brecht Commentaries
1943-1986. 2nd ed. New York: Grove Press, 1987.
- Bentley, Eric.The Playwright
as Thinker: a Study of Drama in Modern Times. New York: Harcourt, Brace
& World, 1967.
- Berg, Günter and Wolfgang Jeske, ed.
Bertolt Brecht. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1998.
- Brooker, Peter. Bertolt Brecht:
Dialectics, Poetry, Politics. New York: Croom Helm, 1988.
- Brown, Russell E. Intimacy
and Intimidation: Three Essays on Bertolt Brecht. Stuttgart: F. Steiner
Verlag, 1990.
- Calabro, Tony. Bertolt Brecht's
Art of Dissemblance. Wakefield, N.H.: Longwood Academic, 1990
- Dickson, Keith A. Towards Utopia:
a Study of Brecht. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.
- Gray, Ronald D. Brecht the
Dramatist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
- Hanssen, Paula. Elisabeth Hauptmann:
Brecht's Silent Collaborator. Berne: Lang, 1995.
- Hill, Claude. Bertolt Brecht.
Boston: Twayne, 1975.
- *Hill,
Claude. Bertolt Brecht. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities, 1986.
[1 videocassette: b&w ; 3/4 in.]
- Jameson, Fredric. Brecht and
Method. New York: Verso, 1998.
- Knopf, Jan. Brecht-Handbuch:
eine Asthetik der Widerspruche. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1980-1984.
(Contents: <1> Theater.--
<2> Lyrik, Prosa, Schriften. Mit einem Anhang, Film.)
- Mews, Siegfried, ed. A Bertolt
Brecht Reference Companion. Westport, Conneticut: Greenwood Press, 1997.
- Morley, Michael. Brecht: a
Study. London: Heinemann, 1977.
- Needle, Jan and Peter Thomson.
Brecht. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
- Schoeps, Karl-Heinz. Bertolt
Brecht. New York: F. Ungar, 1977.
- Schopes, Karl-Heinz. Bertolt
Brecht: Life, Work and Criticism. Fredericton, N.B., Canada: York Press,
1989.
- Speirs, Ronald. Bertolt Brecht.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
- Suvin, Darko. To Brecht and
Beyond: Soundings in Modern Dramaturgy. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes and Noble,
1984.
- Willett, John. Brecht in Context:
Comparative Approaches. London: Methuen, 1984.
- Willett. The Theatre of Bertolt
Brecht: a Study from Eight Aspects. Rev. ed. London: Methuen, 1977.
- Wulbern, Julian H. Brecht and
Ionesco: Commitment in Context. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971.
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Collections of Essays:
- Bartram, Graham and Waine, Anthony,
ed. Brecht in Perspective. London: Longman, 1982.
- Demetz, Peter. Brecht: a Collection
of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962.
- Giles, Steve and Rodney Livingstone,
ed. Bertolt Brecht : Centenary Essays. (German Monitor ; no. 41.) Atlanta,
Ga. : Rodopi, 1998.
- Kleber, Pia and ColinVisser,
ed. Re-interpreting Brecht: His Influence on Contemporary Drama and Film.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- Lyon, James K. and Hans-Peter
Breuer, ed. Brecht Unbound. Presented at the International Bertolt Brecht
Symposium Held at the University of Delaware, February 1992. Newark: University
of Delaware Press,1995.
- Mews, Siegfried, ed. Critical
Essays on Bertolt Brecht. Boston: Hall, 1989.
- Mews and Herbert Knust, ed.
Essays on Brecht: Theater and Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1974. ["Brecht's works in English; a select bibliography":
p. 227-229.]
- Munk, Erika, ed. Brecht. New
York: Bantam Books,1972.
- Thomson, Peter, and Glendyr
Sacks, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Brecht. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1994.
- Weber, Betty Nance, and Hubert
Heinen. Bertolt Brecht. Political Theory and Literary Practice. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1980.
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Film:
- Gersch, Wolfgang. Film bei Brecht:
Bertolt Brechts praktische und theoretische Auseinandersetzung mit dem
Film. Munich: Hanser, 1975.
- Lellis, George. Bertolt Brecht,
Cahiers du cinéma and Contemporary Film Theory. Ann Arbor: UMI Research
Press, 1982.
- Mueller, Roswitha. Bertolt
Brecht and the Theory of Media. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1989.
- Murray,
Bruce Arthur. Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic: from Caligari
to Kuhle Wumpe. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.
- Walsh, Martin. The Brechtian
Aspect of Radical Cinema. Edited by Keith M. Griffiths. London: British
Film Institute., 1981.
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Influence:
- Berg-Pan, Renata. Bertolt Brecht
and China. Bonn: Bouvier, 1979.
- Bodek, Richard. Proletarian
Performance in Weimar Berlin: Agitprop, Chorus, and Brecht. Columbia, SC:
Camden House, 1997.
("We are the red megaphone!"
Political Music, Agitprop Theater, Everyday Life and Communist Politics
in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. Ph. D. Dissertation. University of
Michigan, 1990.)
- Chick, Edson M. Dances of Death:
Wedekind, Brecht, Dürrenmatt, and the Satiric Tradition. Columbia,
S.C.: Camden House, 1984.
- Ellis, Lorena. Brecht's Reception
in Brazil. New York: Lang, 1995.
- Hill, Victoria Williams. Bertolt
Brecht and Post-war French Drama. Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag
H.-D. Heinz, 1978.
- Lyon, James K. Bertolt Brecht
and Rudyard Kipling: a Marxist's Imperialist Mentor. The Hague: Mouton,
1975.
- Mayer, Hans. Brecht.
Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1996.
("Brecht und die Tradition." Translated by Jack D. Zipes in Steppenwolf and Everyman.
New York: Crowell, 1971.)
- Murphy, G. Ronald. Brecht and
the Bible: a Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's
Drama of Mortality and the City. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1980.
- Nagavajara, Chetana. Brecht
and France. Berne: Lang, 1994.
- Parmalee, Patty Lee. Brecht's
America. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1981.
- Reinelt, Janelle G. After Brecht
: British Epic Theater. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
- Rouse, John. Brecht and the
West German Theatre: the Practice and Politics of Interpretation. Ann Arbor:
UMI Research Press, 1989.
- Sieg, Katrin. Exiles, Eccentrics,
Activists: Women in Contemporary German Theater. Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 1994.
- Spalter, Max. Brecht's Tradition.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967.
- Tatlow, Antony and Tak-Wai
Wong, ed. Brecht and East Asian Theatre: the Proceedings of a Conference
on Brecht in East Asian Theatre. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press,
1982.
- Tatlow, Antony. The Mask of
Evil: Brecht's Response to the Poetry, Theatre and Thought of China and
Japan: a Comparative and Critical Evaluation. Berne: Lang, 1977.
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Major Plays:
- [The Materialien
series by Suhrkamp Verlag]
- Fischer, Gerhard. The Paris
Commune on the Stage: Valles, Grieg, Brecht, Adamov. Frankfurt a. M.: Lang,
1981.
- Hinton, Stephen, ed. Kurt Weill:
The Threepenny Opera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- Kaufmann, Hans. Bertolt Brecht:
Geschichtsdrama und Parabelstück. Berlin: Rütten and Loening,
1962.
- Kitching, Laurence Patrick
Anthony. Der Hofmeister: a Critical Analysis of Bertolt Brecht's Adaptation
of Lenz's Drama. Munich: Fink, 1976.
- Kleber, Pia. Exceptions and
Rules: Brecht, Planchon, and "The Good Person of Szechwan." Frankfurt a.
M.: Lang, 1987.
- Milfull, John. From Baal to
Keuner: the "Second Optimism" of Bertolt Brecht. Frankfurt a. M.: Lang,
1974.
- Patterson, Michael. The Revolution
in German Theatre: 1900-1933. Boston: Routledge, 1981.
- Schumacher, Ernst. Drama und
Geschichte. Berlin, Henschel, 1965.
- Schumacher. Die dramatischen
Versuche Bertolt Brechts, 1918-1933. Reprint. Berlin: Das europaische
Buch,1977.
- Speirs, Ronald. Brecht's Early
Plays. London: Macmillan, 1982.
- Subiotto, Arrigo. V. Bertolt
Brecht's Adaptations for the Berliner Ensemble. London: Modern Humanities
Research Association, 1975.
- Thomson, Peter. Brecht: Mother
Courage and Her Children. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Weber, Betty Nance. Brechts
"Kreidekreis", ein Revolutionsstück: eine Interpretation: mit Texten
aus dem Nachlaß. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1978.
- White, Alfred D. Bertolt Brecht's
Great Plays. London : Macmillan, 1978.
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Poetry:
- Thomson, Philip John. The Poetry
of Brecht: Seven Studies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1989.
- Whitaker, Peter. Brecht's Poetry:
a Critical Study. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.
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Political Views:
- Arendt, Hannah. Men in Dark Times.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.
- Bloch, Ernst, et al. Aesthetics
and Politics. Ed. by Ronald Taylor. London : NLB, 1977.
- Lunn, Eugene. Marxism and Modernism:
a Historical Study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin, and Adorno. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1982.
- Giles, Steve. Bertolt Brecht
and Critical Theory: Marxism, Modernity, and the Threepenny Lawsuit. New
York: Lang, 1997.
- *Grass,
Gunter. The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising: a German Tragedy. Translated
by Ralph Manheim. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.
- Ley, Ralph. Brecht as Thinker:
Studies in Literary Marxism and Existentialism. Normal, Illinois : Applied
Literature Press, 1979.
- Pike, David. Lukács
and Brecht. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
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Prose:
- Jeske, Wolfgang.
Bertolt Brechts Poetik des Romans. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1984.
- Müller, Klaus-Detlef.
Brecht-Kommentar zur erzählenden Prosa .Munich: Winkler, 1980.
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Theory:
- Barthes, Roland. Critical Essays.
Translated by Richard Howard. Evanston: Northwestern University Press,
1972.
- Brown, H. M. Leitmotiv and
Drama: Wagner, Brecht, and the Llimits of 'Epic' Theatre. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1991.
- Eaton, Katherine Bliss. The
Theater of Meyerhold and Brecht. Westport, Conneticut: Greenwood Press,
1985.
- Gilbert, Michael John Tyler.
Bertolt Brecht's Striving for Reason, Even in Music: a Critical Assessment.
New York: Lang, 1988.
- Kiebuzinska, Christine Olga.
Revolutionaries in the Theater : Meyerhold, Brecht, and Witkiewicz.
Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1988.
- Steinweg, Reiner. Das Lehrstück:
Brechts Theorie einer politisch-asthetischen Erziehung. Stuttgart: Metzler,
1972.
- Wiles, Timothy J. The Theater
Event: Modern Theories of Performance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1980.
- Wright, Elizabeth. Postmodern
Brecht: a Re-presentation. London: Routledge, 1989.
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Production:
Directing:
- Berlau, Ruth, et al, ed. Theaterarbeit.
6 Aufführungen des Berliner Ensembles. Dresden: VVV Dresdner Verlag,
1952. 3rd ed. Berlin: Henschel, 1967.
- Fuegi, John. Bertolt Brecht:
Chaos, According to Plan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- Fuegi, John. The Essential
Brecht. Los Angeles: Hennessey and Ingalls, 1972.
- Hurwicz, Angelika. Brecht inszeniert:
Der kaukasische Kreidekreis. Velber bei Hannover: Friedrich Verlag, 1964.
- Jones, David Richard. Great
Directors at Work: Stanislavsky, Brecht, Kazan, Brook. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1986.
- Mitter, Shomit. Systems of
Rehearsal: Stanislavsky, Brecht, Grotowski, and Brook. London: Routledge,
1992.
- Rülicke-Weiler, Käthe.Die
Dramaturgie Brechts: Theater als Mittel der Veranderung. Berlin, Henschel,
1966.
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Music:
- Adorno, Theodor and Hanns Eisler.
Composing for the Films. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1947. Reprint.
Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Athlone Press, 1994.
- Betz, Albrecht. Hanns Eisler
Political Musician. Translated by Bill Hopkins. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1982.
- Drew, David. Kurt Weill: a
Handbook. London: Faber and Faber, 1987.
- Fowler, Kenneth. Received Truths:
Bertolt Brecht and the Problem of Gestus and Musical Meaning. New
York: AMS Press, 1991.
- Gilbert, Michael John Tyler.
See Theory.
- Hennenberg, Fritz, ed. Brecht-Liederbuch.
Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1984.
- Lucchesi, Joachim and Ronald
K Shull. Musik bei Brecht. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1988.
- Shull, Ronald K. Music and
the Works of Bertolt Brecht: a Documentation. Ph. D. Dissertation, University
of Kansas, 1986.
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Reviews:
- Funk, Christoph. Zum Theater Brechts: Kritiken,
Berichte, Beschreibungen aus drei Jahrzehnten. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1990.
- Ihering, Herbert. Bert Brecht hat
das dichterische Antlitz Deutschlands verändert : gesammelte Kritiken
zum Theater Brechts. Edited by Klaus Völker. Munich: Kindler, 1980.
- Schumacher, Ernst. Brecht-Kritiken.
Berlin: Henschel, 1977.
- Wyss, Monika. Brecht in der
Kritik: Rezensionen aller Brecht-Uraufführungen, sowie ausgewählter
deutsch- und fremdspracher Premieren. Munich: Kindler, 1977.
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Scenic Design:
- Aronson, Arnold and Thomas J. Mikotowicz, ed.
Theatrical Designers: an International Biographical Dictionary. New York: Greenwood, 1992.
- Appen, Karl von. Karl von Appen: Altes und Neues, Bilder und Texte.
Berlin: Berliner Ensemble, 1975.
- Willett, John. Caspar Neher,
Brecht's Designer. London: Methuen, in association with the Arts Council
of Great Britain, 1986.
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Stage History:
- *Brecht
on Stage. Cicero, Illinois: Roland Collection of Films on Art, 1989. [1
videocassette (25 min.): b&w with color sequence. 1/2 in.]
- Eddershaw, Margaret. Performing
Brecht. London: Routledge, 1996.
- Hiley, Jim. Theatre at Work:
the Story of the National Theatre's Production of Brecht's Galileo. London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
- Jacobs, Nicholas and Prudence
Ohlsen, ed. Bertolt Brecht in Britain. London: IRAT Services/TQ Publications,
1977.
*McCann,
David R., ed. The Theater of Bertolt Brecht: as Performed by the Berliner
Ensemble.Glendale, California: KaiDib Films International, 1971. [46 slides
: b&w ; 2x2 in. & teacher's guide]
- Niessen, Carl, ed. Brecht auf
der Buhne. Cologne: Institut für Theaterwissenschaft der Universität
Köln, 1959.
- Pintzka, Wolfgang. Helene Weigel,
Actress: a Book of Photographs. Translated by John Berger and Anna Bostock.
Leipzig : VEB Offizin Andersen Nexö, 1961.
- Whitton, David. Molière: Don Juan.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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