John Willett (1917-2002) was the greatest English language authority on Brecht the writer and man of the theatre. The foremost translator and editor of Brecht's drama, poetry, letters, diaries, theatrical essays and fiction, Willett produced a dozen volumes for Methuen Drama on the greatest modern German writer.
"""An outstanding introduction to its subject. . . will immeasurably enrich Brechtians young and old, especially those who think they know it all"" * Times Educational Supplement * ""Economical, witty and unpretentious in a way that Brecht would have liked, but immensely well-informed and thoroughly documented, seems certain to become required reading for anyone seriously interested in the dramatist"" * London Review of Books * An extraordinarily rich volume, which succeeds in being packed but uncrowded * New Statesman *"