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reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1978978-0-333-21655-2All rights reserved.No part of this publication may bereproduced or transmitted,in any form or by any means,without permission  \nFirst published 1978 byTHE MACMILLAN PRESS LTDLondon and BasingstokeAssociated companies in DelhiDublin Hong Kong Johannesburg LagosMelbourne New York Singapore Tokyo  \n\n| British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data   |\n| --- |\n| White,Alfred D.   |\n| Bertolt Brecht's great plays   |\n| 1.Brecht,Bertolt-Criticisms and interpretation   |\n| I.Title   |\n| 832′.9'12  \u003Cbr>PTZ603.R397Z/   |\n| ISBN 978-1-349-03278-5(eBook)  \u003Cbr>ISBN 978-1-349-03280-8   |\n| DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-03278-5   |\n\nTo my wife  \nContents  \nList of Illustrations  \n这  \nAcknowledgementsX  \nPreface  \nxi  \n1 Life of Brecht1  \n2 Brecht's Ways of Thought15  \n3 Theory and Practice of Brechtian Theatre24  \n4 The Life of Galileo  \n53  \n(i)The plot  \n53  \n(ii)Galileo,science and the bourgeois era  \n59  \n(iii)Galileo:split character  \n67  \n(iv)The social world of the play  \n71  \n(v)The structure and artistry of the play  \n75  \n(vi)Language  \n78  \n(vii)The play on the stage  \n82  \n5 Mother Courage and her Children  \n85  \n(i)The plot  \n85  \n(ii)The chronicle  \n91  \n(iii)War and Marxism  \n92  \n(iv)Goodness and virtue  \n98  \n(v)Language and dumbshow  \n101  \n(vi)The songs  \n105  \n(vii)The scenic interpretation of the play  \n107  \n6 The Good Person of Szechwan113(i)The plot113(ii)The parable play120(iii)A Chinese play?122  \nviii Contents  \n(iv)The gods and the good  \n123  \n(v)The split character  \n127  \n(vi)Epic-dramatic techniques  \n132  \n(vii)Microstructures  \n135  \n(viii)The music  \n138  \n7 The Caucasian Chalk Circle  \n140(i)The plot140(ii)Forerunners148(iii)The demonstration play149(iv)Narration152(v)The social world of the play153(vi)Grusha's productivity156(vii)Azdak's productivity159(viii)The productivity of the communes163(ix)Presentation and language165(x)Setting and costume168  \n8 Assessment  \n171  \nNotes  \n175  \nIndexes  \n189  \nList of Plates  \n1 Life of Galileo,scene 2:the Doge tries to attract Galileo's atten-tion (Berliner Ensemble 1957)  \n2 Life of Galileo,scene 12:Laughton with projection of instrumentsof torture(New York 1947)  \n3 Mother Courage,scene 6:Courage counts stock and curses war(Berliner Ensemble 1951)  \n4 Mother Courage,scene 11:death of Kattrin (Wuppertal)  \n5 The Good Person of Szechwan,street set(Frankfurt 1952)  \n6a The Good Person of Szechwan,scene 7:Shen Teh addresses thepublic(Berliner Ensemble 1957)  \n6b The Good Person of Szechwan,scene 8:Shui Ta supervises thetobacco factory (Zurich 1943)  \n7a The Caucasian Chalk Circle,act 2:Grusha rescues Michael(Ber-liner Ensemble 1954)  \n7b The Caucasian Chalk Circle,act 3:the bridge (Berliner Ensemble1954)  \n8 The Caucasian Chalk Circle,act 6:Grusha argues with the Gov-ernor's Wife(Berliner Ensemble 1954)  \nGrateful thanks are due to Gerda Goedhart for permission to reproduce Plates 7aand 7b.The author and publishers have been unable to trace the copyright holdersof the remaining Plates,but we will be pleased to make the necessary arrange-ments at the first opportunity  \nAcknowledgements  \nThe author and publishers wish to thank the following who have kindlygiven permission for the use of copyright material:  \nEyre Methuen Limited,for extracts from 'Brecht on Theatre’by JohnWillet,and short quotations from the works of Bertolt Brecht:The Lifeof Galileo',translated by Desmond Vesey,translation copyright ◎1960 byDesmond Vesey;'Mother Courage',translated by Eric Bentley,copyright◎1955,1959,1961,1962 by Eric Bentley(original work published underthe title of 'Mutter Courage Und Ihre Kinder’,copyright ◎1949 by Suhr-kamp Verlag vormals S.Fischer,Frankfurt am Main);'The CaucasianChalk Circle’,translated by James and Tania Stern with W.H.Auden,copyright C(Act 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