Bertolt Brecht - Education Scotland

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CRITICAL STUDIES
Willett, J, The Theatre of the Weimar Republic, New York: Holmes and Meier
Publishing Inc., 1988
For a change, this is not as readable as some of Willett’s other work, bogged
down as it is with lists of dates and information. However, it is still a
thoroughly interesting achievement. (It is due to be re-issued in 2000.)
Williams, R, Drama from Ibsen to Brecht, London: Penguin, rev. 1968
A classic text with a short chapter on Brecht placing him in a historical process
and theatrical context.
Wright, E, Postmodern Brecht: a re-presentation, London: Routledge, 1989
Someone had to write this book, of course. Brecht is open to claims by
postmodernists to be one of their own due, for instance, to the disruption of
narrative (among other practices and beliefs) and Wright duly claims aspects of
his theory and some of his early playtexts for the postmodernist cause – one
might almost hear a plaintive riposte from Brecht’s graveside.
DRAMA