Brecht Plays 8 - The Antigone of Sophocles; The Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Methuen Drama
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	World Classics
Release date:	March 2012
First published:	March 2012
Editors:	Tom Kuhn
Authors:	Bertolt Brecht
Translators:	David Constantine
Editors:	David Constantine
Translators:	Tom Kuhn
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	255
ISBN-13:	978-0-413-77352-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	0-413-77352-3
Barcode:	9780413773524

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