Brecht Plays 8

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472538567

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Brecht Plays 8 by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

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.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472538574

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Brecht Plays 8 by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

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.

Author : Sophocles,Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Greek drama
ISBN : CORNELL:31924026676647

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The Antigone of Sophocles by Sophocles,Theodore Dwight Woolsey Pdf

Author : John Willett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:476491084

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The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht by John Willett Pdf

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : New York : Grove Press
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015002282955

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Seven Plays by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

A selection of plays by Betolt Brecht in one volume. His major works. In these seven plays, one can trace the entire curve of Brecht's amazing career as a dramatist.

Author : Stephen Unwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408150313

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A Guide To The Plays Of Bertolt Brecht by Stephen Unwin Pdf

Stephen Unwin's A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht is an indispensable, comprehensive and highly readable companion to the dramatic work of this challenging and rewarding writer. Besides providing detailed accounts of nineteen key plays, it explores their context and Brecht's dramatic theory to equip readers with a rich understanding of how Brecht's work was shaped by his times and by his evolving thinking about the function of theatre. Bertolt Brecht's work as a director, his critical and theoretical writing, and above all the remarkable plays that emerged from one of the most turbulent periods in history have had a profound and lasting influence on theatre. Central to theatre studies courses and whose plays are frequently revived on stage, Brecht is nevertheless perceived as a difficult writer. This companion is divided into two sections: the first seven chapters outline the tumultuous historical, cultural and theatrical context of Brecht's work. They explore his theatrical theory and provide an account of his approach to staging his plays which informs an understanding of how they work in practice. The second section provides an analysis of nineteen plays in six chronological groupings, each prefaced by a brief sketch of Brecht's life and theatrical development in that period. For each play, Stephen Unwin offers a synopsis, a critical commentary and an account of the work in performance. The book concludes with an examination of Brecht's legacy and a chronicle of his life and times. Written by experienced theatre director Stephen Unwin, this is the perfect companion to Brecht's plays and life for student and theatre practitioner alike.

Author : Alfred D. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:49015001194068

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Bertolt Brecht's Great Plays by Alfred D. White Pdf

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0413473007

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Brecht Collected Plays by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Volume Four of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s.'Round Heads and Pointed Heads, based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in Germany. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich creates a montage of some thirty short scenes, showing ordinary life under the Nazis permeated by suspicion and anxiety. Senora Carrar's Rifles is based on J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea, relocated by Brecht in the Spanish Civil War. The Trial of Lucullus, a radio play, is a starkly poetic pacifist text, in which the Roman general is tried by the Underworld for his military triumphs. Also included are two one-act plays, Dansen and How Much Is Your Iron? The volume includes an introduction and notes by Tom Kuhn and John Willett as well as variants and additional relevant texts by Brecht.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005363796

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Collected Plays by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : A & C Black
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0413472906

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Brecht Collected Plays by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Volume Four of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s.??Round Heads and Pointed Heads, based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in Germany. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich creates a montage of some thirty short scenes, showing ordinary life under the Nazis permeated by suspicion and anxiety. Senora Carrar's Rifles is based on J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea, relocated by Brecht in the Spanish Civil War. The Trial of Lucullus, a radio play, is a starkly poetic pacifist text, in which the Roman general is tried by the Underworld for his military triumphs. Also included are two one-act plays, Dansen and How Much Is Your Iron? The volume includes an introduction and notes by Tom Kuhn and John Willett as well as variants and additional relevant texts by Brecht.

Author : Ronald Speirs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1982-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349054497

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Brecht’s Early Plays by Ronald Speirs Pdf

Author : David Barnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408186022

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Brecht in Practice by David Barnett Pdf

David Barnett invites readers, students and theatre-makers to discover new ways of apprehending and making use of Brecht in this clear and accessible study of Brecht's theories and practices. The book analyses how Brecht's ideas can come alive in rehearsal and performance, and reveals just how carefully Brecht realized his vision of a politicized, interventionist theatre. What emerges is a nuanced understanding of Brecht's concepts, his work with actors and his approaches to directing. The reader is encouraged to engage with his method which sought to 'make theatre politically', in order to appreciate the innovations he introduced into his stagecraft. Barnett provides many examples of how Brecht's ideas can be staged, and the final chapter takes a closer look at two very different plays: one written by Brecht and one by a playwright with no acknowledged connection to Brecht. Through an interrogation of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and Patrick Marber's Closer, Barnett asks how a Brechtian approach can enliven and illuminate production.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0413704807

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Collected Plays by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Author : G. Ronald Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015001135600

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Brecht and the Bible by G. Ronald Murphy Pdf

This study identifies the underlying patterns of persistent biblical allusion in the work of renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht. Rather than reducing Brecht's use of the Bible to the purely satirical, the author interprets the full dramatic function of Brecht's complex use of scripture. Using examples from plays written throughout the span of Brecht's career, Murphy shows how Brecht invokes the stories of Old Testament figures such as Job and Isaiah as well as the crucifixion accounts of the New Testament in order to build sympathetic characters and explore his more political themes.

Author : Peter Thomson,Glendyr Sacks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139827737

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The Cambridge Companion to Brecht by Peter Thomson,Glendyr Sacks Pdf

This updated Companion offers students crucial guidance on virtually every aspect of the work of this complex and controversial writer. It brings together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners, and this edition introduces more voices and themes. The opening essays place Brecht's creative work in its historical and biographical context and are followed by chapters on single texts, from The Threepenny Opera to The Caucasian Chalk Circle, on some early plays and on the Lehrstücke. Other essays analyse Brecht's directing, his poetry, his interest in music and his work with actors. This revised edition also contains additional essays on his early experience of cabaret, his significance in the development of film theory and his unique approach to dramaturgy. A detailed calendar of Brecht's life and work and a selective bibliography of English criticism complete this provocative overview of a writer who constantly aimed to provoke.