1959-1978 A Collection on the Work of Bertolt Brecht

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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Five volumes. A collection of volumes containing studies on the work of Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known as Bertolt Brecht, a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Immersed in Marxist thought, Brecht wrote didactic pieces and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the Verfremdungseffekt. After the Second World War, he eventually settled in East Berlin and co-founded the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel. This set contains: The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht, 1959. First edition. With over two hundred in-text images. Written by John William Mills Willett, a British translator and scholar, who is remembered for translating the work of Bertolt Brecht into English. The Art of Bertolt Brecht, 1963. First US edition. Scarce edition. Written by Walter Weideli, a Swiss screenwriter, translator and writer. Brecht on Theatre, 1964. First translated edition. Illustrated with forty-one plates. Collated complete. Translated by John William Mills Willett. The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, 1976. First edition. Written by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Wystan Hugh Auden, a British-American poet, and Chester Kallman, an American poet, librettist, and translator. Brecht: A Biography, 1978. First edition. Illustrated with twenty-six plates. Collated complete. Written by Klaus Volker, a German scholar and expert on Brecht.