FC -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Prelude: Eugen Brecht Goes out to Play -- Part One: Lyrical Awakening -- 1. The Brechts 1898–1 -- 2. Church, School, Sickness 1903–12 -- 3. Precocity 1912–14 -- 4. The Heroism and the Madness of War 1914–16 -- 5. Bert Brecht and his Friends 1916–17 -- Part Two: Dramatic Iconoclast -- 6. To be the Greatest Dramatist 1917–18 -- 7. The Medical Orderly and the Revolution 1918–19 -- 8. The ‘Lost’ Brecht Sons 1919–21 -- 9. Brecht in Love 1921 -- 10. Cold Chicago 1921–2 -- 11. The Theatrical Genius 1922–4 -- 12. At the Watershed 1924–7 -- 13. Monumental Success 1927–8 -- Part Three: Marxist Heretic -- 14. To be a True Comrade : Surviving the Storm as the Smallest Magnitude 1928–9 -- 15. Government by Emergency Decree 1929–31 -- 16. Solidarity with the Working Class 1931–3 -- 17. Into Exile from Nazi Germany 1933 -- 18. Svendborg 1933–4 -- 19. London, Moscow and New York: Stanislavsky’s Pre-Eminence 1934–6 -- 20. Anti-Fascism and the Show Trials 1936–8 -- Part Four: Chastened Survivor -- 21. Survival in an Age of Reaction 1938–9 -- 22. Flight Eastward to the West 1939–41 -- 23. Disgust 1941–2 -- 24. Ever the Enemy Alien 1942–5 -- Part Five: Contentious Master -- 25. After the Dark Times – The Cold War 1945–7 -- 26. Hydratopyranthropos Surveys the Wreckage 1947–9 -- 27. The Quest for Acclaim: Issues of Authority1949–51 -- 28. Leadership Struggles: Correcting theHeretic? 1951–3 -- 29. The New Age of the Theatre 1953–6 -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index