Brecht Collected Plays: Round and Pointed Heads / Fear and Misery / Senora Carrar's Rifles / Trial of Lucull / Dansen / How Much Is Your Iron? - Couverture rigide

Brecht, Bertolt

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0413472302 ISBN 13 : 9780413472304

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 2001

Synopsis

The long-awaited volume of Brecht's classic plays from the 1930s Volume 4 of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political and cultural history - as well as in Brecht's own life. Round Heads and Pointed Heads, based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in the Germany Brecht had to leave in 1933. The Trial of Lucullus, a starkly pacifist text originally written in response to a commission from Swedish radio, portrays the Roman general tried by the Underworld for his military triumphs. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, unique in Brecht's work, consists of some thirty short scenes of life under the Nazis between 1933 and 1938, designed for use by groups in exile. Senora Carrara's Rifles is based on J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea, but relocated by Brecht in the Spanish Civil War. Also included are two one-act plays, Dansen and How Much is Your Iron?, minor works designed for amateurs in Scandinavia, where the Brechts lived till spring 1941.The volume includes an introduction and notes by Tom Kuhn and John Willett, as well as Brecht's own notes on the texts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and writing have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera and, while exiled from Germany and living in the USA, such masterpieces as The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0413472302
• ISBN 13: 9780413472304
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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