The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui - Couverture souple

Brecht, Bertolt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0413478106 ISBN 13 : 9780413478108

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 1981

Synopsis

Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche - from Al Capone to Shakespeare's Richard III and Goethe's Faust - Brecht's compelling parable continues to have relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today.

Written during the Second World War in 1941, the play was one of the Berliner Ensemble's most outstanding box-office successes in 1959, and has continued to attract a succession of major actors, including Leonard Rossiter, Christopher Plummer, Antony Sher and Al Pacino.

Presented in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this is the standard critical edition of the play featuring extensive editorial notes and an introduction.

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 critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0413478106
• ISBN 13: 9780413478108
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Éditeur: Willett John, Manheim Ralph
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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