Brecht Plays 8 : The Antigone of Sophocles; the Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress PDF
by Bertolt Brecht
Part of the World Classics series
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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 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.
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- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:23/04/2015
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- ISBN:9781472538574
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:23/04/2015
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- ISBN:9781472538574