Brecht Plays 8 : The Antigone of Sophocles; The Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress Paperback / softback
by Bertolt Brecht
Edited by Tom (St Hugh's College, Oxford University, UK) Kuhn, David Constantine
Part of the World Classics series
Paperback / softback
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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:26/08/2004
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- ISBN:9780413773524
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- Pages:288 pages
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- Publication Date:26/08/2004
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- ISBN:9780413773524
