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Bertolt Brecht (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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A prolific writer, Bertolt Brecht experimented with several literary forms and subjected nearly everything he wrote to painstaking revision. He first became known as a dramatist when he won the distinguished Kleist Prize in 1922 for his plays Baal (wr. 1918, pb. 1922; English translation, 1963), Trommeln in der Nacht (wr. 1919-1920, pr., pb. 1922; Drums in the Night, 1961), and Im Dickicht der Städte (pr. 1923; In the Jungle of Cities, 1961), and he remains perhaps best known for plays such as Mutter Courage und ihre...
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Baal (Masterplots Classics) -
Baal (Character Profiles) -
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Caucasian Chalk Circle, The (Character Profiles) -
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Galileo (Drama) -
Galileo (Masterplots Classics) -
Galileo (Character Profiles) -
Galileo (Literary Places) -
Good Woman of Setzuan, The (Drama) -
Good Woman of Setzuan, The (Character Profiles) -
Mother Courage and Her Children (Drama) -
Mother Courage and Her Children (Masterplots Classics) -
Mother Courage and Her Children (Character Profiles) -
Mother Courage and Her Children (Literary Places) -
On Thinking About Hell (Poetry) -
Private Life of the Master Race, The (Masterplots Classics) -
Private Life of the Master Race, The (Character Profiles) -
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Drama) -
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Character Profiles) -
Threepenny Opera, The (Drama) -
Threepenny Opera, The (Masterplots Classics) -
Threepenny Opera, The (Character Profiles) -
Threepenny Opera, The (Literary Places) -
Acting Styles (Topical Overview--Drama) -
Dramatic Genres (Topical Overview--Drama) -
Experimental Theater (Topical Overview--Drama) -
Staging and Production (Topical Overview--Drama) -
East German Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
German Poetry: 1800 to Reunification (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
