Collected plays. one / Bertolt Brecht ; edited and introduced by John Willett and Ralph Manheim.
By: Brecht, Bertolt
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Contributor(s): Willett, John | Manheim, Ralph.
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BookSeries: Methuen world classics.Publisher: London : Methuen Drama, 1994Description: xxii, 456 p. ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780413685704 .Subject(s): Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Translations into English | DramaDDC classification: 832.912 BRE | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 832.912 BRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00177493 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.
Volume One of Brecht's Collected Plays contains Brecht's first performed stage works. Baal is inspired by Brecht's student life in Augsburg and follows the life of a young poet on the rocky road to inspiration; Drums in the Night was written in response to Brecht's experience as a medical orderly in the aftermath of the First World War; and In the Jungle of Cities , set in Chicago, covers the downfall of a family that has moved from the prairies to the jungle of the big city - award-winning in its day, it was described by a leading German daily as the play that 'has given our time a new tone, a new melody, a new vision'.
This volume also includes The Life of Edward II of England , a ballad-like adaptation of Marlowe's original, and five one-act plays The Beggar or the Dead Dog , Driving Out The Devil , Lux in Tenebris , The Catch and A Respectable Wedding in which the bourgeois proceedings take a hilarious turn for the unseemly.
The translators are Jean Benedetti, Eva Geiser and Ernest Borneman, Richard Grünberger, Michael Hamburger, Gerhard Nellhaus, Peter Tegel and John Willett. The translations are ideal for both study and performance. The volume is accompanied by a full introduction and notes by the series editor John Willett and includes Brecht's own notes and relevant texts as well as all the important textual variants.
Baal -- Drums in the night -- In the jungle of cities -- The life of Edward II of England -- A respectable wedding -- The Beggar or the dead dog -- Driving out a devil -- Lux in Tenebris -- The catch.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Bertolt Brecht was born on February 10, 1898 in Augsburg, Bavaria, and died on August 14, 1956. He was a German playwright, theatre director and Marxist. The modest house where he was born is today preserved as a Brecht Museum.Brecht formed a writing collective which became prolific and very influential. He wrote many lyrics for musicals and collaborated with Kurt Weill to create Die Dregroschenoper -- the biggest hit in 1920s Berlin.
Brecht experimented with his own theater and company -- the Berliner Ensemble -- which put on his plays under his direction and which continued after his death with the assistance of his wife. Brecht aspired to create political theater, and it is difficult to evaluate his work in purely aesthetic terms.
Brecht died in 1956.
(Bowker Author Biography)