Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Introduction, explaining the status and appearance of the various projects and setting them in the context, both of Brecht's literary development and of German social and political history.
Fleischhacker (1924-27)
edited and translated by Phoebe von Held and Matthias Rothe
Fatzer: Downfall of an Egoist (1926-30)
edited and translated by Tom Kuhn: The Downfall of Johann Fatzer
The Bread Store (1929-30)
edited and translated by Marc Silberman
Jacob Trotalong (mid to late 1930s)
Edited and translated by Charlotte Ryland
The Judith of Shimoda (1940)
edited and translated by Markus Wessendorf
Büsching (1950s)
edited and translated by Marc Silberman