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The Many Lives of Galileo - Brecht, Theatre and Translation's Political Unconscious (Paperback)
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The Many Lives of Galileo - Brecht, Theatre and Translation's Political Unconscious (Paperback)
Series: Stage & Screen Studies, 7
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The Many Lives of Galileo is a Marxist study of the development of
Bertolt Brecht's great play Galileo on the English stage. Tracing
various translations of Brecht's original, and the historical and
political moments surrounding these translations, Dougal McNeill
examines how, across the distances of culture, history and
language, The Life of Galileo has come to figure so prominently in
the life of English-language theatre. The translations and
productions of Galileo by Charles Laughton, Howard Brenton and
David Hare are examined, in a method combining close reading with
an attention to broader social contexts, with an eye to uncovering
their implications for drama in performance. Brecht valued
re-creation, re-invention and re-telling as much as creation
itself. In this book the author applies Brecht's aesthetic to
translations of his own work, following Laughton, Brenton and Hare
as they set themselves the task of rewriting Brecht and, in the
process, use him to comment on their own eras.
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