CoverTitle PageCopyrightCONTENTSList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: 1918-19321. Frank Wedekind2. A Reckoning3. Emphasis on Sport4. Three Cheers for Shaw5. Conversation with Bert Brecht6. A Radio Speech7. Shouldn't we Abolish Aesthetics?8. The Epic Theatre and its Difficulties9. Last Stage: Oedipus10. A Dialogue about Acting11. On Form and Subject-Matter12. An Example of Paedagogics13. The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre14. The Literarization of the Theatre15. The Film, the Novel and Epic Theatre16. The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication17. The Question of Criteria for Judging Acting18. Indirect Impact of the Epic Theatre

Part 2: 1933-194719. Interview with an Exile20. Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction21. The German Drama: pre-Hitler22. Criticism of the New York Production of Die Mutter23. On the Use of Music in an Epic Theatre24. Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting25. Notes to Die Rundkopfe und Die Spitzkopfe26. On Gestic Music27. The Popular and the Realistic28. On Rhymeless Verse with Irregular Rhythms29. The Street Scene30. On Experimental Theatre31. Short Description of a New Technique of Acting which Produces an Alienation Effect32. Two Essays on Unprofessional Acting33. Notes on the Folk Play34. Alienation Effects in the Narrative Pictures ofthe Elder Brueghel35. A Little Private Tuition for my Friend Max Gorclik36. Building up a Part: Laughton's Galileo37. 'Der Messingkauf': an editorial note

Part 3: 1947-194838. A Short Organum for the Theatre

Part 4: 1948-195639. Masterful Treatment of a Model40. From the Mother Courage Model41. Does Use of the Model Restrict the Artist's Freedom?42. Formal Problems Arising from the Theatre's New Content43. Stage Design for the Epic Theatre44. From a Letter to an Actor45. Some of the Things that can be Learnt from Stanislavsky46. Theaterarbeit: an editorial note47. Notes on Erwin Strittmatter's Play 'Katzgraben'48. Study of the First Scene of Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus'49. Cultural Policy and Academy of Arts50. Conversation about being Forced into Empathy51. Classical Status as an Inhibiting Factor52. Can the Present-day World be Reproduced by Means of Theatre?53. Appendices to the Short Organum54. 'Dialectics in the Theatre': an editorial note55. Our London Season

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