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Brecht on Theatre by Bertolt Brecht; Marc Silberman (Editor); Tom Kuhn (Editor); Steve Giles (Editor)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht's thinking on theatre and aesthetics. First published in 1964 and on reading lists ever since, Brecht's writings are presented in this definitive editi ...Show more
Collected Short Stories of Bertolt Brecht by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Fiction
Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th-century innovators in theatre - the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky - and Germany's greatest poet of the last century, but the playwright was also a dazzling writer of stories. Storytelling permeated his art as a dram ...Show more
Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Student Editions
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and n ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays
This version of Brecht's great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions, adapting the original rather than offering a close translation. In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mot ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
This new Student Edition, featuring the classic John Willett translation of the play, includes an introduction by Katherine Hollander, which explores the following-* Contexts (Thirty Years War, 1618-1648; World War II and exile; sources; influential figures such as Brecht, Margarete Steffin, Helene Weig ...Show more
Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Play) by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Fiction | Series: Student Editions
This is an annotated student edition of one of Brecht's most famous plays and a classic of modern literature/theatre. 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 ...Show more
The Cold Gaze: Germany in The 1920s by Laerke Rydal Jorgensen (Editor); Christopher Isherwood (Text by); Irmgard Keun (Text by); Angela Lampe (Text by); Anthony Lane (Text by); Herbert Molderings (Text by); Werner Möller (Text by); Patrick Rössler (Text by); Catherine Wermester (Text by); Kirsten Degel (Editor); Poul Erik Tøjner (Foreword by); Vicki Baum (Text by); Bertolt Brecht (Text by); Alfred Döblin (Text by); Hans Fallada (Text by); Marieluise Fleisser (Text by)
72.95 AUD
Category: Art
A sweeping journey through the roaring art and culture of the Weimar Republic At the center of this volume are the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) artists--Otto Dix, George Grosz and Albert Renger-Patzsch--and the groundbreaking photographer August Sander, in particular his famed series People of t ...Show more
The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Brecht's famous parable, written in exile in 1939-41, shows that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. In it, the gods come to earth in search of enough good people to justify their existence. They find Shen Teh, a good-hearted but penniless prostitute, and make her a gift that en ...Show more
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays
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 fictional, small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade in the 1930s. The satirical allegory com ...Show more
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Classics
In this savage and witty parable written in exile in 1941, Brecht recasts the rise of Hitler as a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. This prizewinning translation by Ralph Manheim skilfully captures the wide range of parody and pastiche in the original - from Richar ...Show more
The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Reading Level: good
Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. It focuses on the feud between Macheaf - an amo ...Show more
The Threepenny Opera: Methuen Student Edition by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Student Editions
This Student Edition of Brecht's satire on the capitalist society of the Weimar Republic features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases ...Show more