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- East German Poetry (Critical Survey of Poetry: Topical Essays)
- Explicating Poetry: World Poets (Critical Survey of Poetry: World Poets)
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- English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Critical Survey of Poetry: Topical Essays)
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- The Threepenny Opera (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- Mother Courage and Her Children (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Threepenny Opera (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
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- The Good Woman of Setzuan (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
- Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
- Mother Courage and Her Children (Masterplots II: Drama)
- Galileo (Masterplots II: Drama)
- The Threepenny Opera (Masterplots II: Drama)
- Staging and Production (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- Dramatic Genres (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- Experimental Theater (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- Acting Styles (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
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- Author: Bertolt Brecht
Other Literary Forms
Bertolt Brecht is best known as a dramatist, but he also wrote poetry, novels, screenplays, dramatic theory, and essays on politics and society, as well as short fiction.
Achievements
Although of necessity outside Germany in exile for sixteen years, it was in Germany, not Scandinavia or the United States, that Bertolt Brecht was best received. In 1922, at the beginning of his career as a writer, he received the Kleist Prize for literature for his drama Trommeln in der Nacht (1922; Drums in the Night, 1961). Later, when he...
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