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The Cambridge companion to Brecht / edited by Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks.

This edition retains much that was in the original, and also introduces new voices and themes. The essays bring together the views of major critics and active practitioners. A calendar of Brecht's life and work and a selective biography of English criticism complete this overview of a writer who constantly aimed to provoke.
2nd ed.
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
xxviii, 333 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Cambridge companions to literature

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Brecht's lover / Jacques-Pierre Amette ; translated by Andrew Brown.

The winner of France's most prestigious Prix Goncourt 2003, 'Brecht's Lover' is a fictional and hugely compelling tale of love and espionage.
Author: Amette, Jacques-Pierre, 1943-
Published: London : Hesperus, 2005.
228 p. ; 23 cm.

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Collected plays / Bertolt Brecht. Vol. 4 / edited by Tom Kuhn and John Willett.

This volume contains a selection of Brecht's classic plays from the 1930s, such as Round Heads and Pointed Heads and The Trial of Lucullus. It also includes one of his most famous plays Fear and Misery of the Third Reich.
Author: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Published: London : Methuen, 2001.
xxix, 415p. ; 23 cm.

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Brecht collected plays Vol. 5

This book brings together 2 of Brecht's most popular plays. Life of Galileo examines the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology. Mother Courage and her Children is the story of a woman who loses her children to the Thirty Years War.
Author: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Published: Methuen Drama, 1995.
400 p. ; 18 cm.
Methuen world classics

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Brecht in context : comparative approaches / John Willett.

This is a revised edition of John Willett's classic study, published for the centenary of Berthold Brecht's birth. Willett sets in context not only Brecht the theatre practitioner, but also Brecht the writer and man of his time.
Author: Willett, John, 1917-
Rev. ed.
Published: London : Methuen, 1998.
viii, 312 p. ; 22 cm.

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Brecht collected plays. 2 / edited and introduced by John Willett and Ralph Manheim.

Author: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Published: London : Methuen, 1998.
468p. ; 18 cm.

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Brecht collected plays. 1 / edited and introduced by John Willett and Ralph Manheim.

This book brings together some of Brecht's most popular plays, a number of which have previously never been available in English. Included are Brecht's first performed stage works, Baal, Drums in the Night and In the Jungle of Cities.
Author: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Published: London : Methuen, 1998.
468p. ; 18 cm.

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Collected plays / Bertolt Brecht. 7 / edited and introduced by John Willett and Ralph Manheim.

The seventh volume of Brecht's Collected Plays contains the plays he wrote during his six-year stay in the United States between 1942 and 1948.
Author: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Published: London : Methuen Drama, 1994.
xxxvi, 443p. ; 18 cm.
Methuen world classics

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Collected plays / Bertolt Brecht. 3 / edited amd introduced by John Willett.

Author: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Published: London : Methuen Drama, [1998]
xxxii, 432p. ; 18 cm.
Methuen world classics

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The life and lies of Bertolt Brecht / John Fuegi.

Backed up by previously unpublished papers and interviews with Brecht's colleagues and lovers, this biography argues that Brecht was not in fact the author of the plays which have given him his iconic stature, and claims they were written in a sex-for-text scheme by his mistresses.
Author: Fuegi, John
Published: London : HarperCollins, 1994.
xx, 732p., [32]p. of plates.

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Brecht for beginners

Author: Thoss, Michael
Published: Writers & Readers, 1994.
pbk.ed.

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The Cambridge companion to Brecht / edited by Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks.

This companion offers 19 essays and reference material covering the whole of Brecht's theatre work.
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
xxxii,302p.
Cambridge Companions to Literature

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Bertolt Brecht letters / translated by Ralph Manheim ; edited with commentary and notes by John Willett.

This comprehensive selection of Brecht's letters covers the whole of the playwright's adult life from his mid-teens to his death, charting his public and private life for over 40 years. It offers valuable insights into the mind and life of this influential and controversial figure.
Author: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Published: London : Heinemann, 1990.
720p. ; 23cm.

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The Brecht memoir / Eric Bentley ; with an introduction by Martin Esslin.

Author: Bentley, Eric, 1916-
Published: Manchester : Carcanet, 1989.
135p. : ill., ports. ; 22cm.

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Brecht's poetry : a critical study / by Peter Whitaker.

A study of Brecht's poetry from its beginnings in World War I to the 1950s. It draws on recent publications and on unpublished archive material, relating the poems both to Brecht's other writings and to the wider historical context. Individual texts are analyzed in detail.
Author: Whitaker, Peter, 1952-
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1985.
x,284p. ; 23cm.
Oxford modern languages and literature monographs

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Brecht in context : comparative approaches / John Willett.

Author: Willett, John, 1917-
Published: London : Methuen, 1984.
274p. ; 23cm.

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Brecht's early plays / Ronald Speirs.

Author: Speirs, Ronald
Published: London : Macmillan, 1982.
xi,224p. ; 23cm.

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Bertolt Brecht diaries 1920-1922 / edited by Herta Ramthun ; translated [from the German] and annotated, with an introductory essay by John Willett.

Author: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Published: London : Eyre Methuen, 1979.
xxiii,182p.,8p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23cm.

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Brecht : a study / by Michael Morley

Author: Morley, Michael, 1943-
Published: London : Heinemann Educational [etc.], 1977.
vii,135p. ; 21cm.

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The measures taken, and other Lehrstücke / by Bertolt Brecht.

For a cast of four or five for each play.
Author: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Published: London : Eyre Methuen, 1977.
79p. ; 19cm.
Methuen's modern plays

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Bertolt Brecht in Britain / compiled and edited by Nicholas Jacobs and Prudence Ohlsen to accompany an exhibition at the National Theatre, London ; introduction by John Willett.

Author: Jacobs, Nicholas
Published: [London] ([30 Prince of Wales Cres., N.W.1]) : Irat Services Ltd/TQ Publications, 1977.
2-100p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 25cm.

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Brecht the dramatist / Ronald Gray

Author: Gray, Ronald Douglas
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1976.
vii,232p ; 22cm.
Major European authors

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Understanding Brecht / Walter Benjamin ; translated [from the German] by Anna Bostock ; introduction by Stanley Mitchell.

Author: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Published: London (7 Carlisle St., W.1) : NLB, 1973.
xix,124p. ; 22cm.

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Mutter Courage und ihre kinder

Author: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Published: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1963.
pbk.ed.

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