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A Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun. The figure of Galileo, whose ‘heretical' discoveries about the solar system brought him to the attention of the Inquisition ...Show more
Aesthetics and Politics by Theodor W. Adorno (Author) , Walter Benjamin (Author) , Ernst Bloch (Author) , Bertolt Brecht (Author) , Georg Lukacs (Author)
Category: Art and Design
Features the text in the great controversies over literature and art between thinkers who have become giants of 20th-century philosophy.
Aesthetics and Politics by Theodor W. Adorno; Walter Benjamin; Ernst Bloch; Bertolt Brecht; Georg Lukacs
Category: Philosophy and Religion
An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature. With an afterword by Fredric Jameson No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which ...Show more
Brecht Collected Plays: 1 by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: World Classics
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, Drums in the Night, In the Jungle of Cities, The Life of Edward 11 of England and five one-act plays. Baal is inspired by ...Show more
Brecht Collected Plays: 2 by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
The most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language This second volume of Brecht's Collected Plays brings together some of his most glittering Berlin successes including The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The Seven Deadly Sins, Man E ...Show more
Brecht Collected Plays: 3 by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
The most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language Volume Three of Brecht's Collected Plays includes St Joan of the Stockyards - a play which recasts St Joan as Joan Dark springing hope into the hearts of factory workers at the mercy of meatpacker king Pierpont M ...Show more
Brecht Collected Plays: 5 by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Methuen World Classics Ser.
This fifth volume in the Collected Plays series brings together two of Brecht's plays, "The Life of Galileo" and "Mother Courage and her Children". "Galileo" examines the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology, through the story of the great astronomer and his persecution by the Inquisition ...Show more
Brecht Collected Plays: v.4: Round and Pointed Heads, Fear and Misery, Carrar's Rifles,Trial of Lucull Dansen,How Much is Your Iron? by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: World Classics
Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht's classic plays from the 1930s Volume 4 of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political and cultural history - as well as in Brecht's own life. Round Heads and Pointed Heads, based on Shakespeare' ...Show more
Brecht Collected Plays: v.6: Good Person of Szechwan, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Mr Puntila and His Man Matti by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: World Classics
Methuen's edition of the "Collected Plays of Bertolt Brecht", in English, is now included in the "World Classics" series. Each volume contains an introduction and extensive notes, as well as variant versions and relevant texts by Brecht himself. One of a series of eight, this volume features "The Good P ...Show more
Brecht on Theatre by Bertolt Brecht; Marc Silberman (Editor); Tom Kuhn (Editor); Steve Giles (Editor)
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht's thinking on theatre and aesthetics. First published in 1964 and on reading lists ever since, Brecht's writings are presented in this definitive editi ...Show more