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Brecht Plays 8: The Antigone of Sophocles; The Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Brecht Plays 8: The Antigone of Sophocles; The Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Tom Kuhn
By (author) Bertolt Brecht
Translated by David Constantine
Edited by David Constantine
Translated by Tom Kuhn
SeriesWorld Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenrePlays, playscripts
ISBN/Barcode 9780413773524
ClassificationsDewey:832.912
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publication Date 26 August 2004
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 devoted his energies at this time - in an often tense dialogue with the GDR authorities - to the establishment of a new, post-Fascist literature and theatre. Antigone - A bold reflection on resistance and dictatorship in the aftermath on Nazism. The Days of the Commune - A semi-documentary account of the Paris Commune of 1871. Turandot or The Whitewasher's Congress - Brecht's grand satire on the bourgeois intellectual class, and a bizarre, comic variation on the old Turandot story.

Author Biography

Tom Kuhn is Professor of 20th century German Literature at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK, and General Editor of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama's Brecht publications. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Tom Kuhn is Professor of 20th century German Literature at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK, and General Editor of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama's Brecht publications.