Brecht Bertolt - Brecht Sourcebook

When we began this project, we knew that the pages of TDR over the past 40 years would provide an incredible range of information on Brecht and how he was introduced in the U.S. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, TDR (then the Tulane Drama Review) was instrumental in making work by and about Brecht available to an English-speaking audience. Under the editorship of the late Robert W.Corrigan, the journal frequently published such work, including a special issue (T13) devoted exclusively to Brecht in 1961. Erika Munk, Managing Editor of TDR in 1967 and 1968, helped compile two additional special issues on Brecht (T37 and T38), which subsequently became the anthology Brecht (Bantam, New York, 1972). Many of the articles in this volume originally appeared in one of these three special issues, and we gratefully acknowledge the work of the editors of TDR.

We regret that the Brecht Sourcebook cannot include all the work by and about Brecht which has appeared in the pages of TDR. Given the rich source of material, we had to make many hard choices. We thank Talia Rodgers and her staff at Routledge and Suzanne Winnacker, among others too numerous to name, for their helpful suggestions on this book. We also thank those authors who contributed new work, or granted permission to reprint material published elsewhere to help us bring this collection up to date.

We gratefully acknowledge the many authors, editors, and publishers who assisted us as we navigated the murky waters of copyright information. Jerold Couture, attorney for the Brecht Estate, was especially helpful in enabling us to secure reprint permissions for the five Brecht-authored pieces in this collection.

Our colleagues in the Departments of Drama and Performance Studies at New York University have provided invaluable support. Two people deserve special thanks for their practical assistance: Cindy Brizzell (now at Yale) and Aitor Baraibar. The editorial staff of