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Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English
vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the
work in its social and historical context.
Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modem
stage, Mother Courage and Her Children is Bertolt Brecht's most
passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the
seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling ("Mother
Courage"), an itinerant trader, as she pulls her wagon of wares and
her children through the blood and carnage of Europe's religious
wars. Battered by hardships, brutality, and the degradation and
death of her children, she ultimately finds herself alone with the
one thing in which she truly believes--her ramshackle wagon with
its tattered flag and freight of boots and brandy. Fitting herself
in its harness, the old woman manages, with the last of her
strength, to drag it onward to the next battle. In the enduring
figure of Mother Courage, Bertolt Brecht has created one of the
most extraordinary characters in literature.
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Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
Fredric Jameson; Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukacs, Theodor Adorno, …
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No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of
major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in
German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and
Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over
literature and art during these years are assembled in a single
volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous,
interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of
twentieth-century intellectual history.
Brecht's series of twenty-four interconnected playlets describe
events which took place in ordinary German households in the 1930s.
They dramatise with clinical precision the suspicion and anxiety
experienced by ordinary people, particularly Jewish citizens, as
the power of Hitler grew. Written in exile in Denmark and first
staged in 1938 it was inspired in part by his recent trip to Moscow
where he had been researching tasks for the anti-Nazi effort. This
Student Edition features an extensive introduction and commentary
and includes: a chronology of the Brecht's life and work; a
synopsis of each playlet; an introduction to the context of the
play; commentary on themes, characters, style and language; a
review of the play in performance; notes on individual words and
phrases in the text, and questions for further study.
Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the
seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church
over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun. The figure of
Galileo, whose 'heretical' discoveries about the solar system
brought him to the attention of the Inquisition, is one of Brecht's
more human and complex creations. Temporarily silenced by the
Inquisition's threat of torture, and forced to abjure his theories
publicly, Galileo continues to work in private, eventually
smuggling his work out of the country. Brecht's beautiful depiction
of the explosive struggle between scientific discovery and
religious fundamentalism is captured masterfully in this new
translation by RSC writer-in-residence, Mark Ravenhill.
Brecht projects an ancient Chinese story onto a realistic setting
in Soviet Georgia. In a theme that echoes the Judgment of Solomon,
two women argue over the possession of a child. Thanks to the
unruly judge, Azdak (one of Brecht's most vivid creations) natural
justice is done and the peasant Grusha keeps the child she loves,
even though she is not its mother. Written while Brecht was in
exile in the United States during the Second World War, The
Caucasian Chalk Circle is a politically charged, much-revived and
complex example of Brecht's epic theatre. This new Student Edition
contains introductory commentary and notes by Kristopher Imbrigotta
from the University of Puget Sound, US, offering a much-needed
contemporary perspective on the play. The introduction covers: -
narrative structure: play about a play within a play ("circle") -
songs and music - justice and social systems - context: Brecht,
exile, WWII, socialism - notions of collective and class - fable
and story adaptation, folk fairy tale
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The city burns in the heat of civil war and a servant girl
sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child. But when peace
is finally restored, the boy's mother comes to claim him. Calling
upon the ancient tradition of the Chalk Circle, a comical judge
sets about resolving the dispute. But in a culture of corruption
and deception, who wins? Written by the grand master of
storytelling and peopled with vivid and amusing characters, this is
one of the greatest plays of the last century. This Caucasian Chalk
Circle is translated by award-winning writer Alistair Beaton, who
also wrote the bitingly witty stage play Feelgood and the
celebrated TV dramas The Trial of Tony Blair and A Very Social
Secretary. The play was toured by Shared Experience in 2009.
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Love Poems (Hardcover)
Bertolt Brecht; Translated by David Constantine, Tom Kuhn; Foreword by Barbara Brecht-Schall
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Even in Germany, the true scope and force of Bertolt Brecht s
poetry did not become apparent until long after his death in 1956,
and even today, so many of his more than 2,000 poems have never
appeared in English. Love Poems, the first volume in a monumental
undertaking by David Constantine and Tom Kuhn to translate his
poetic legacy into English, positions Brecht, the author of Mother
Courage and The Threepenny Opera, not merely as one of the most
famous playwrights of the twentieth century but also as a fiercely
creative twentieth-century poet, one of the best in the whole of
German literature. With a personal foreword by his own daughter,
Barbara Brecht-Schall, Love Poems features 78 astonishing and
deeply personal love poems many addressed to particular women that
reveal Brecht as lover and love poet whose bitter struggle to keep
faith, hope, and love alive during desperate times represents the
essence of human relationships."
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic satire on the rise of
Hitler features an extensive introduction and commentary that
includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes,
characters, style and language as well as questions for further
study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect
edition for students of theatre and literature.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.
Brecht's series of twenty-four interconnected playlets describe
events which took place in ordinary German households in the 1930s.
They dramatize with clinical precision the suspicion and anxiety
experienced by ordinary people, particularly Jewish citizens, as
the power of Hitler grew.
This volume is translated by John Willett, joint editor of
Brecht's collected plays in English and is accompanied by an
extensive introduction and commentary.
"What Brecht shows us here is more or less harmless by
comparison with what came later. Perhaps this is its greatest
strength: we know the results, what we are looking for is the
beginnings."-Max Frisch
The three plays gathered in this volume are among Bertolt Brecht's
most remarkable; the best-known is Jungle of Cities, here
translated by the poet Anselm Hollo. Set in Chicago in a climate of
rampant capitalism, it is the story of a savage battle waged
between two men, whose relationship is at once homosexual and
sadomasochistic and whose tightly choreographed hostility is a
metaphor for their cultural surround.
Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain
events familiar to us all', "The Resistible Rise of 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.This version,
originally translated by George Tabori, has been revised by leading
Scottish playwright Alistair Beaton.
Bertolt Brecht
Translated by George Tabori Drama
Characters: 30 male, 5 female
Brecht's shudderingly accurate parallel between Hitler and his
henchmen on the one hand and the old crime lords of Chicago on the
other is a vigorous eye opener that was produced on Broadway with
Christopher Plummer. The Cauliflower Trust in Chicago is in need of
help and turns to a racketeer by the name of Arturo Ui to begin a
"protection" campaign. His henchmen look astonishingly like
Goebbels and Goring. Their activities include "accidental" fires
and a St. Valentine's Day massacre. "A wild and grotesque sort of
clown show, with everything seen through a distorting mirror...An
ideal vehicle for a director who knows how to shoot the work in his
staging." -The New York Post
Full Length, Drama w/music / 18m, 5f, extras /Int./5 Exts. This
German play was written in 1939 and was first produced in Zurich in
1941. In America, it was published in English right away (1941, by
New Directions) but did not reach Broadway till 1963 - in a
memorable production directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Anne
Bancroft. It had, of course, by that time been produced to much
acclaim all over the world. When Bertolt Brecht directed the play
in Munich (1950), Eric Bentley, Assistant Director, at his bidding
started to translate the play into English. He was eventually to
make several different English versions of it. The most interesting
of these is published here. It was a collaboration with the eminent
French composer Darius Milhaud. Together they made this remarkable
contribution to musical theatre.
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The Good Person Of Szechwan (Paperback)
Bertolt Brecht; Edited by Charlotte Ryland, Tom Kuhn; Translated by John Willett; Volume editing by Tom Kuhn, …
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'Brecht's dark, dazzling world-view...makes an absolutely
devastating impact. The play is fuelled by the brilliant perception
that everyone requires such a dual or split personality to
survive.' Evening Standard Three gods come to earth hoping to
discover one really good person. No one can be found until they
meet Shen Te, a prostitute with a heart of gold. Rewarded by the
gods, she gives up her profession and buys a tabacco shop but finds
it is impossible to survive as a good person in a corrupt world
without the support of her ruthless alter ego Shui Ta. Brecht's
parable of good and evil was first performed in 1943 and remains
one of his most popular and frequently produced plays worldwide.
This Student Edition features an extensive introduction and
commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context,
themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for
further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the
perfect edition for students of theatre and literature.
Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt
Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative
editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.The fifth volume
in the Brecht Collected Plays series brings together two of
Brecht's best-known and most frequently performed and studied
plays: Life of Galileo and Mother Courage and Her Children.
Galileo, which examines the conflict between free inquiry and
official ideology, contains one of Brecht's most human and complex
central characters. Temporarily silenced by the Inquisition's
threat of torture, and forced to abjure his theories publicly,
Galileo continues to work in private, eventually smuggling his work
out of the country. As an examination of the problems that face not
only the scientist but also the whole spirit of free inquiry when
brought into conflict with the requirements of government or
official ideology, Life of Galileo has few equals. The translations
are ideal for both study and performance. The volume is accompanied
by a full introduction and notes by the series editor John Willett
and includes Brecht's own notes and relevant texts as well as all
the important textual variants.
In this new translation of Brecht's great 1939 anti-war play
'Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder' by the distinguished Scottish poet
Tom Leonard, the Thirty Years War becomes the War on Terror and
Mother Courage is a working-class woman from the West of Scotland
speaking in the broad, bold Glaswegian dialect. It is a play about
the language of politics and the politics of language.
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