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The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht by Bertolt Brecht; David Constantine (Translator); Tom Kuhn (Translator)
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Category: New Hardbacks
A landmark literary event, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht is the most extensive English translation of Brecht's poetry to date. Widely celebrated as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht was also, as George Steiner observed, "that very rare phenomenon, a great p ...Show more
The Good Soul of Szechuan - Bertolt Brecht by BRECHT BERTOLT
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
This play, written during Brecht's exile to the United States and set in pre-Communist China, is a parable of a young woman torn between obligation and reality, between love and practicality, and between her own needs and those of her friends and neighbours.
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Modern Plays
Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', The Resistible Rise of 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 parod ...Show more
The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | 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: Plays, Theatre & Dance | 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
War Primer by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Poetry
In this singular book written during World War II, the renowned playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines and puts short epigraph poems to each, in a unique attempt to understand the truth of war using mass media. From catastrophic bombings, to propaganda ...Show more