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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part One 1918-1932, Frank Wedekind -- A reckoning -- Emphasis on sport -- Three cheers for Shaw --Conversation with Bert Brecht -- A radio speech -- Shouldn't we abolish aesthetics? -- The epic theatre and its difficulties -- Last state: Oedipus -- A dialogue about acting -- On form and subject-matter -- An example of Paedagogics -- The modern theatre is the epic theatre -- The literarization of the theatre -- The film, the novel and epic theatre -- The radio as an apparatus of communication -- The question of criteria for judging acting -- Indirect impact of the epic theatre -- Part Two 1933-1947, Interview with an exile -- Theatre for pleasure or theatre for instruction -- The German drama: pre Hitler -- Criticism of the New York production of Die Mutter -- On the use of music in an epic theatre -- Alienation effects in Chinese acting -- Notes to Die Rundkopfe und die Spitzkopfe -- On gestic music -- The popular and the realistic -- On rhymeless verse with irregular rhythms -- The street scene -- On experimental theatre -- New technique of acting -- Two essays on unprofessional acting -- Notes on the folk play -- Alienation effects in the narrative pictures of the Elder Brueghel -- A little private tuition for my friend Max Gorelik -- Building up a part: Laughton's Galileo -- 'Der Messingkauf': an editorial note -- Part Three 1947-1948, A short organum for the theatre -- Part Four 1948-1956, Masterful treatment of a model -- From a Mother Courage model -- Does use of the model restrict the artist's freedom? …”

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