Brecht and the Writer's Workshop

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.Tom Kuhn is a Fellow of St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. He is the author, editor and translator of numerous works on and by Brecht, and is General Editor of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama’s Brecht publications.

• Introduction, explaining the status and appearance of the various projects and setting them in the context, both of Brecht’s literary development and of German social and political history. Fleischhacker (1924-27) edited and translated by Phoebe von Held and Matthias RotheFatzer: Downfall of an Egoist (1926-30) edited and translated by Tom Kuhn: The Downfall of Johann FatzerThe Bread Store (1929-30) edited and translated by Marc SilbermanJacob Trotalong (mid to late 1930s) Edited and translated by Charlotte RylandThe Judith of Shimoda (1940) edited and translated by Markus WessendorfBüsching (1950s) edited and translated by Marc Silberman

Certainly unique ... While this is undoubtedly a tome published with academics and Brechtian completists in mind, the plays themselves are insightful and readable. As such, general readers and students also have a chance to get a further insight into the brain of a unique genius and, who knows, perhaps at some point a reader might be inspired to produce one or more of these plays?