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

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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.

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.