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Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921): An Interdisciplinary Study

Hardback

Main Details

Title Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921): An Interdisciplinary Study
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dr. David J. Shepherd
By (author) Nicholas E. Johnson
SeriesScriptural Traces
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreDrama
Biblical studies
ISBN/Barcode 9780567685643
ClassificationsDewey:832.912
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations 3 b/w illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint T.& T.Clark Ltd
Publication Date 16 April 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This volume offers an examination of Brecht's largely forgotten theatrical fragments of a life of David, written just after the Great War but prior to Brecht winning the Kleist Prize in 1922 and the acclaim that would launch his extraordinary career. David J. Shepherd and Nicholas E. Johnson take as their starting point Brecht's own diaries from the time, which offer a vivid picture of the young Brecht shuttling between Munich and the family home in Augsburg, surrounded by friends, torn between women, desperate for success, and all the while with 'David on the brain'. The analysis of Brecht's David, along with his notebooks and diaries, reveals significant connections between the reception of the Biblical David and one of Germany's most tumultuous cultural periods. Drawing on theatrical experiments conducted with an ensemble from Trinity College Dublin, this volume includes the first ever translation of the David fragments in English, an extensive discussion of the theatrical afterlife of David in the early twentieth century as well as new interdisciplinary insights into the early Brecht: a writer entranced by the biblical David and utterly committed to translating the biblical tradition into his own evolving theatrical idiom.

Author Biography

David Shepherd is Assistant Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Nicholas E. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Drama at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Reviews

Besides contributing to Brecht, theatre, translation, biblical and reception studies-both Brechtian and biblical-this book offers a model for collaborative research. * Journal for the Study of the Old Testament *