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Fear and Misery of the Third Reich

By John Willett (trans)

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9781408100080 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, March 15, 2012, cover price $14.95

The Good Person of Szechwan

Three powerless gods investigate complaints of poverty in an Oriental village in Brecht's dramatic parable

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9781408100073 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, March 15, 2012, cover price $14.95 | also contains The Good Person of Szechwan

9781559702355 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, February 25, 1994), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Three powerless gods investigate complaints of poverty in an Oriental village in Brecht's dramatic parable

9780413582409 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, March 1, 1987), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 'Brecht's dark, dazzling world-view.

The Weimar Years: A Culture Cut Short

Product Description: A visual history of this intriguing artistic period, featuring work by Dix, Grosz, Heartfield, Brecht, and more. During the Weimar Republic (1919â1933) a distinctive culture evolved from the roots of the Modern Movement. It was a unique effort to bring into common use technical and artistic discoveries of the great prewar pioneers from the Cubists to Le Corbusier, and it brought together some of the most original and significant artists, writers, musicians, architects, photographers, designers, and filmmakers...read more

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9780896594098 | Abbeville Pr, March 1, 1984, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Evokes the culture of the Weimar Republic through a cinematic montage of photographs, paintings, drawings, collages, and film stills

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9780500273111 | Reprint edition (Thames & Hudson, April 1, 2011), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A visual history of this intriguing artistic period, featuring work by Dix, Grosz, Heartfield, Brecht, and more.

9780896594104 | Abbeville Pr, March 1, 1984, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Evokes the culture of the Weimar Republic through a cinematic montage of photographs, paintings, drawings, collages, and film stills

Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti

A hard drinking Finnish landowner, Puntila suffers from a divided personality - when drunk he is human and humane; when sober, surly and self centred. This play contains some of the best comedy Brecht wrote for the theatre. It also includes relevant texts, as well as an extensive introduction and commentary.

By Ralph Manheim (editor)

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9781408100707, titled "Mr Puntila and His Man Matti" | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, December 1, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A hard drinking Finnish landowner, Puntila suffers from a divided personality - when drunk he is human and humane; when sober, surly and self centred.

9781559702805 | Arcade Pub, January 17, 1997, cover price $9.95

Threepenny Opera: Methuen Student Edition

By Bertolt Brecht and John Willett (trans)

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9780413774521 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, May 1, 2005, cover price $14.95

The Theatre of the Weimar Republic

Product Description: The most definitive, comprehensive study of the origins, development, achievements and ultimate destruction of the performing arts in Germany from World War I through the rise of Hitler, "" The Theatre of the Weimar Republic "" is an invaluable record of creativity born out of conflict...read more

By John Willett

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9780841907591 | Holmes & Meier Pub, October 1, 1988, cover price $79.50 | About this edition: The most definitive, comprehensive study of the origins, development, achievements and ultimate destruction of the performing arts in Germany from World War I through the rise of Hitler, "" The Theatre of the Weimar Republic "" is an invaluable record of creativity born out of conflict.

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9780841913578 | Reprint edition (Holmes & Meier Pub, October 1, 2003), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The most definitive, comprehensive study of the origins, development, achievements and ultimate destruction of the performing arts in Germany from World War I through the rise of Hitler, "" The Theatre of the Weimar Republic "" is an invaluable record of creativity born out of conflict.

The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht

By John Willett

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9780413343604 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, September 1, 2003, cover price $21.95

Messingkauf Dialogues

Contains the arguments of actor, actress, dramaturg (or literary adviser) and electrician with the Brechtian Philosopher who wants to exploit their talent for his own purposes.

By John Willett (trans)

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9780413388902 | 2 revised edition (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, July 1, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Contains the arguments of actor, actress, dramaturg (or literary adviser) and electrician with the Brechtian Philosopher who wants to exploit their talent for his own purposes.

Brecht Collected Plays 5: Life of Galileo; Mother Courage and Her Children

Brings together two of Brecht's plays, 'Life of Galileo' and 'Mother Courage and Her Children'. 'Galileo' examines the conflict between enquiry and official ideology. In 'Mother Courage' the heroine clings to the source of her livelihood, as war rages around her. It includes Brecht's own notes and relevant texts as well as other textual variants.

By John Willett (editor)

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9780413699701 | New edition (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, July 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Brings together two of Brecht's plays, 'Life of Galileo' and 'Mother Courage and Her Children'.

Mother Courage and Her Children

A chronicle of the Thirty Years War, where Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. One by one she loses her children to the war but did not part with her livelihood - the wagon.

By John Willett (editor)

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9780413412904 | New edition (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, July 1, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A chronicle of the Thirty Years War, where Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon.

9780413492708 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, April 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A chronicle of the Thirty Years War, where Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon.

The Measures Taken and Other Lehrstucke

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By Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim and John Willett

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9781559705448 | Arcade Pub, February 11, 2001, cover price $9.95

Man Equals Man and the Elephant Calf: And the Elephant Calf

Set in British colonial India, this groundbreaking play shows a man being disassembled and reconstructed into a soldier. Reissue.

By Bertolt Brecht, Bertolt Bretch, Ralph Manheim (editor), Gerhard Nellhaus (trans) and John Willett (editor)

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9781559705011 | Arcade Pub, February 23, 2000, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Set in British colonial India, this groundbreaking play shows a man being disassembled and reconstructed into a soldier.

Schweyk in the the Second World War and the Visions of Simone Machard: And, the Visions of Simone Machard

Two plays by the great German director include the story of Schweyk, a common German soldier who survives the war through opportunism and wit, and a French Resistance version of Joan of Arc. Reissue. (view table of contents)

By Bertolt Brecht, Bertolt Bretch, Ralph Manheim, Ellen Rank, Hugh Rank, W. Rowlinson and John Willett

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9781559705028 | Reissue edition (Arcade Pub, February 23, 2000), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Two plays by the great German director include the story of Schweyk, a common German soldier who survives the war through opportunism and wit, and a French Resistance version of Joan of Arc.

Baal

Product Description: BAAL, which renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) wrote when he was in college, is the provocative story of a drunken, ruthless, womanizing poet and singer, a desperate antihero in the tradition of Villon and Rimbaud. The NEW YORK TIMES called the first American production "strong stuff, both horrible and fascinating"...read more

By Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim and John Willett

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9781559704199 | Arcade Pub, August 1, 1998, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: BAAL, which renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) wrote when he was in college, is the provocative story of a drunken, ruthless, womanizing poet and singer, a desperate antihero in the tradition of Villon and Rimbaud.

9780413464408 | Reprint edition (Methuen, March 1, 1987), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: BAAL, which renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) wrote when he was in college, is the provocative story of a drunken, ruthless, womanizing poet and singer, a desperate antihero in the tradition of Villon and Rimbaud.

Collected Stories

Presents thirty-seven stories by the noted playwright, including 'The Monster,' 'Before the Flood,' and 'Life Story of the Boxer Samson-Korner' (view table of contents)

By Bertolt Brecht, Yvonne Kapp (trans), Ralph Manheim (editor), Hugh Rorrison (trans), Antony Tatlow (trans) and John Willett (editor)

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9781559704021 | Arcade Pub, February 1, 1998, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Presents thirty-seven stories by the noted playwright, including 'The Monster,' 'Before the Flood,' and 'Life Story of the Boxer Samson-Korner'

Heartfield Versus Hitler

By John Willett

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9782850255366 | Hazan Editeur, April 1, 1997, cover price $12.95

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahoganny and the Seven Deadly Sins of the Petty Bourgeoisie

Product Description: The two works collected in this volume sprang from the same fruitful collaboration that gave rise to Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera. Both are set in America, but an America of myth. In The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Brecht's parable of greed and indifference, Mahagonny is a boom-town fusing Miami with Sodom and Gomorrah...read more

By W. H. Auden (trans), Bertolt Brecht, Chester Kallman (trans), Ralph Manheim (editor) and John Willett (editor)

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9781559702799 | Arcade Pub, October 17, 1996, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The two works collected in this volume sprang from the same fruitful collaboration that gave rise to Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera.

Art and Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety, 1917-1933

Product Description: The period between the end of World War I and Hitler's ascension to power witnessed an unprecedented cultural explosion that embraced the whole of Europe but was, above all, centered in Germany. Germany housed architect Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus movement; playwrights Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator; artists Hans Richter, George Grosz, John Heartfield, and Hannah Hoch; composers Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schonberg, and Kurt Weill; and dozens of others...read more

By John Willett

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9780306807244 | Da Capo Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The period between the end of World War I and Hitler's ascension to power witnessed an unprecedented cultural explosion that embraced the whole of Europe but was, above all, centered in Germany.

Bertolt Brecht: Journals 1934-1955

Product Description: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By Hugh Rorrison and John Willett

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9780415908375, titled "Bertolt Brecht Journals/1934-1955" | Routledge, December 1, 1993, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1996.

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9780415912822 | Reprint edition (Routledge, January 1, 1996), cover price $41.95 | About this edition: First Published in 1996.

Brecht Then and Now

Product Description: This 20th "jubilee" volume of the Brecht Yearbook also celebrates 25 years of the International Brecht Society. John Willett, has assembled material from the international symposium he convened in Bourges in 1992, along with statements and articles from those who feel an affinity with Brecht...read more

By John Willett (editor)

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9780962320675 | Intl Brecht Society, April 1, 1995, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: This 20th "jubilee" volume of the Brecht Yearbook also celebrates 25 years of the International Brecht Society.

The Three-Penny Opera

Satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic through the love story between Polly Peachum and 'Mack the Knife' Macheath

By Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim and John Willett

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9781559702522 | Arcade Pub, April 1, 1995, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic through the love story between Polly Peachum and 'Mack the Knife' Macheath

The Threepenny Opera/Baal/the Mother: 3 Plays in 1

Three plays deal with bourgeois society, a ruthless, drunken poet, and a working woman who is drawn into Russia's revolutionary movement

By Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim and John Willett (contributor)

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9781559701884 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, October 15, 1993), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Three plays deal with bourgeois society, a ruthless, drunken poet, and a working woman who is drawn into Russia's revolutionary movement

The Good Person of Szechwan/Mother Courage and Her Children/Fear and Misery of the 3rd Reich: 3 Plays in 1

Three plays deal with a good-hearted prostitute, a war survivor, and life in Nazi Germany (view table of contents)

By Bertolt Brecht and John Willett

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9781559701891 | Arcade Pub, October 15, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Three plays deal with a good-hearted prostitute, a war survivor, and life in Nazi Germany

Expressionism

Surveys the development of expressionism in the performing and visual arts during the twentieth century

By John Willett

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9780841911499 | Revised edition (Holmes & Meier Pub, December 1, 1991), cover price $16.50

9780070703018, titled "Expressionism." | McGraw-Hill, July 1, 1971, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Surveys the development of expressionism in the performing and visual arts during the twentieth century

Brecht in Context

By John Willett

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9780413504104 | Olympic Marketing Corp, February 1, 1984, cover price $7.98 | also contains Separably Injective Banach Spaces

Paperback:

9780413723109 | Methuen Pub Ltd, January 1, 1988, cover price $24.95

9780413409607 | Reprint edition (Methuen, February 1, 1987), cover price $10.95 | also contains Movement, Mobilities and Journeys

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