Brecht Plays 8

R440,33

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.

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ISBN

9781472538567

Number Of Pages

288

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2.38 mb

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EPUB

Edition

1

Published

23-04-2015