Brecht Plays 8 The Antigone of Sophocles; the Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress |
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| Author:
| Brecht, Bertolt |
| Translator:
| Constantine, David
Kuhn, Tom |
| Series title: | World Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4725-3857-4 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2015 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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| Imprint: | Methuen Drama |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $22.49 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThe 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.