The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

by Bertolt Brecht

2020-12-29 05:12:52

Described by Brecht as ''a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all'', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster''s takeover of the city''s greengrocery... Read more
Described by Brecht as ''a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all'', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster''s takeover of the city''s greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche - from Al Capone to Shakespeare''s Richard III and Goethe''s Faust - Brecht''s compelling parable continues to have relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today.

Written during the Second World War in 1941, the play was one of the Berliner Ensemble''s most outstanding box-office successes in 1959, and has continued to attract a succession of major actors, including Leonard Rossiter, Christopher Plummer, Antony Sher and Al Pacino.

Presented in Methuen Drama''s Modern Classics series, this is the standard critical edition of the play featuring extensive editorial notes and an introduction.
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Book Details

File size7.8 X 5.08 X 0.35 in
Print pages144
PublisherBloomsbury
Publication date March 24, 2009
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780413478108
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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