Peter Thomson

Abstract: A Brecht calendar Glendyr Sacks Preface Part I. Context and Life: 1. Brecht's Germany: 1898-1933 Eve Rosenhaft 2. Brecht's Lives Peter Thomson 3. Brecht and cabaret Oliver Double and Michael Wilson Part II. The Plays: 4. Brecht's early plays Tony Meech 5. The Threepenny Opera Stephen McNeff 6. Brecht's clowns: Man is Man and after Joel Schechter 7. Learning for a new society: the Lehrstuck Roswitha Mueller 8. The Good Person of Szechwan Christopher McCullough 9. Mother Courage and Her Children Robert Leach 10. Life of Galileo: between contemplation and the command to participate Catherine Turner 11. The Caucasian Chalk Circle: the view from Europe Maria Shevtsova Part III. Theories and Practices: 12. Brecht and the Berliner ensemble - the making of a model Carl Weber 13. Revolutionising theatre: Brecht's reinvention of the dramaturgy Mary Luckhurst 14. Key words in Brecht's theory and practice of theatre Peter Brooker 15. Brecht's poetry Philip Thomson 16. Brecht and music: theory and practice Kim H. Kowalke 17. Brecht and stage design: the Buhnenbuildner and the Buhnenbauer Christopher Baugh 18. Actors on Brecht Margaret Eddershaw 19. Brecht and film Martin Brady Bibliography.

TL;DR: This chapter discusses William Shakespeare's career as a servant to the Lord Chamberlain and its content, as well as some of the characters he played in Shakespeare's plays.

TL;DR: The early modern actors and acting in the early modern theatre: the Elizabethan actor - a matter of temperament making an entrance - Chaucer to Tarlton the missing jig three Elizabethan actors a note on Elizabethan rehearsal.