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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

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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 afte... Read more
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. Less

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File size7.8 X 5.08 X 0.65 in
Print pages288
PublisherBloomsbury
Publication date March 1, 2012
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780413773524
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Bertolt Brecht
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Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 Feb 1898 – 14 Aug 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic...

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