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BRECHT PLAYS 8
THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES; THE DAYS OF THE COMMUNE; TURANDOT OR THE WHITEWASHER'S CONGRESS |
| By: |
Bertolt Brecht, David Constantine (Trans), Tom Kuhn (Trans) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1472538579 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781472538574 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
23 April, 2015 |
| Series: |
World Classics |
| Synopsis: |
The latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into EnglishVolume 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: |
Non-returnable |