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422 MODERN DRAMA February Brecht could have attained, had he selected ideas and motives reasonable and valid in their inception in delineating the character and significance of Galileo. We are dealing with a BertoIt Brecht not really mature in his thought and one reacting to a variety of incompatible stimuli at once. The author was simply not on top of his material. OTIO M. SORENSEN NOTE BRECHT SEMINAR AT MLA At the recent MLA meeting in New York, a group of 35 interested scholars gathered for the first formal Brecht seminar for a discussion of the needs and opportunities in Brecht research. No formal papers were presented, and the discussion centered upon question of the feasibility of establishing a "definitive" text for the Brecht canon. Given Brecht's own conviction that a work of art must be viewed as a continuous process, his own drastic changes in many plays, the fact of his collaboration with others, an ultimate Variorum Edition seems preferable to reliance on anyone version, including the A usgabe letzter Hand. Some valuable suggestions for such an edition were adduced from a recent dissertation at the University of Greifswald: Gerhard Zeidel: "Studien zur Edition poetischer Werke von Bertolt Brecht" (2 vols.), 1966. It was resolved to hold another Brecht seminar at the next meeting of the MLA, with the topic: "1941-1946, Brecht in America." Further suggestions and papers for the seminar should be submitted to Professor Reinhold Grimm, Department of German, University of Wisconsin , Madison. The establishment of a permanent Brecht Society was also discussed, with particular view towards having it function as a clearing house for Brechtiana. Prospective members of this group should contact Professor John Fuegi, Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison. (GERHARD ZUTHER) ...