''The Messingkauf Dialogues'' (german: Dialoge aus dem Messingkauf) is an incomplete theoretical work by the twentieth-century

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Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a pl ...

. Brecht, Bertolt (1965

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. ''The Messingkauf Dialogues''. Trans. John Willett. Brecht's Plays, Poetry and Prose Series. London: Methuen. . John Willett translates "Der Messingkauf" as "Buying Brass".Willett, John. 1964. "'Der Messingkauf': an editorial note". In Bertolt Brecht, ''Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic''. London: Methuen, 1964. . pp. 169–175. According to one Brecht scholar "Brecht worked on he Messingkaufprimarily during the late 1930s and early 1940s. In Brecht’s words it contains, “a lot of theory in dialog form.”"

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