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BRECHT COLLECTED PLAYS
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| Volume: |
v. 8 |
| By: |
Bertolt Brecht, Tom Kuhn (Editor), David J. Constantine (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£30.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0413758702 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780413758705 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
7 August, 2003 |
| Series: |
World Classics |
| Pages: |
292 |
| Description: |
Volume eight of Brecht's plays contains his last completed plays, from the years between his return from America to Europe after the war and his death in 1956. "Antigone" and "Turandot" are adaptations of the classic stories, while "The Days of the Commune" is a semi-documentary account. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Methuen Drama |
| Returns: |
Returnable |