Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship

Bertolt Brecht''s epic theatre sought to change how spectators watched performances, equipping them to critique and intervene in the world outside the theatre. Taking its cue from his call for theatre to develop ''the art of spectatorship'', this major new study explores vision, observation, and spectatorship in twelve of his plays, spanning his career. It relates this analysis to Brecht''s own fo...