Brecht Plays 8
Title | Brecht Plays 8 PDF eBook |
Author | Bertolt Brecht |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 345 |
Release | 2015-04-23 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1472538560 |
The latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English Volume 8 of Brecht's collected plays contains his last completed plays, from the eight years between his return from America to Europe after the war and his death in 1956. Brecht's ANTIGONE (1948) is a bold adaptation of Holderlin's classic German translation of Sophocles' play. A reflection on resistance and dictatorship in the aftermath of Nazism, it was a radical new experiment in epic theatre. THE DAYS OF THE COMMUNE (1949) is a semi-documentary account of the Paris Commune, and Brecht's most serious and ambitious historical play. TURANDOT is Brecht's version of the classic Chinese story is a satire on the intelligentsia of the Weimar Republic, Nazi bureaucracy, and other targets.
Brecht Plays 8
Title | Brecht Plays 8 PDF eBook |
Author | Bertolt Brecht |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2015-04-23 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1472538579 |
The latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English Volume 8 of Brecht's collected plays contains his last completed plays, from the eight years between his return from America to Europe after the war and his death in 1956. Brecht's ANTIGONE (1948) is a bold adaptation of Holderlin's classic German translation of Sophocles' play. A reflection on resistance and dictatorship in the aftermath of Nazism, it was a radical new experiment in epic theatre. THE DAYS OF THE COMMUNE (1949) is a semi-documentary account of the Paris Commune, and Brecht's most serious and ambitious historical play. TURANDOT is Brecht's version of the classic Chinese story is a satire on the intelligentsia of the Weimar Republic, Nazi bureaucracy, and other targets.
The Antigone of Sophocles
Title | The Antigone of Sophocles PDF eBook |
Author | Sophocles |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 1857 |
Genre | Greek drama |
ISBN |
Brecht Collected Plays
Title | Brecht Collected Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Bertolt Brecht |
Publisher | A & C Black |
Total Pages | 151 |
Release | 1990-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780413472908 |
Volume Four of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s.??Round Heads and Pointed Heads, based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in Germany. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich creates a montage of some thirty short scenes, showing ordinary life under the Nazis permeated by suspicion and anxiety. Senora Carrar's Rifles is based on J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea, relocated by Brecht in the Spanish Civil War. The Trial of Lucullus, a radio play, is a starkly poetic pacifist text, in which the Roman general is tried by the Underworld for his military triumphs. Also included are two one-act plays, Dansen and How Much Is Your Iron? The volume includes an introduction and notes by Tom Kuhn and John Willett as well as variants and additional relevant texts by Brecht.
The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht
Title | The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht PDF eBook |
Author | John Willett |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Bertolt Brecht's Great Plays
Title | Bertolt Brecht's Great Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred D. White |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
Brecht Collected Plays
Title | Brecht Collected Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Bertolt Brecht |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 151 |
Release | 1990-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780413473004 |
Volume Four of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s.'Round Heads and Pointed Heads, based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in Germany. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich creates a montage of some thirty short scenes, showing ordinary life under the Nazis permeated by suspicion and anxiety. Senora Carrar's Rifles is based on J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea, relocated by Brecht in the Spanish Civil War. The Trial of Lucullus, a radio play, is a starkly poetic pacifist text, in which the Roman general is tried by the Underworld for his military triumphs. Also included are two one-act plays, Dansen and How Much Is Your Iron? The volume includes an introduction and notes by Tom Kuhn and John Willett as well as variants and additional relevant texts by Brecht.