{"title":"Bertolt Brecht","description":"Bertolt Brecht wa sborn in 1898 and is acknowledged as one of the great German dramatists, poet, playwright, and theatre director whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and writing have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.","products":[{"product_id":"brecht-collected-plays-3-lindberghs-flight-the-baden-baden-lesson-on-consent-he-said-yes-he-said-no-the-decision-the-mother-the-exception-th-paperback","title":"Brecht Collected Plays: 3: Lindbergh's Flight; The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent; He Said Yes\/He Said No; The Decision; The Mother; The Exception \u0026 th - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVolume 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 Mauler threatening cuts in the Depression; and the Lehrstücke or short 'didactic' pieces written during the years 1929 to 1933, are some of his most experimental work. Lindbergh's Flight, The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent, He Said Yes \/ He Said No, The Decision, The Exception and the Rule, and The Horatians and the Curiatians reject conventional theatre; they are spare and highly formalised, drawing on traditional Japanese and Chinese forms. They show Brecht in collaboration with the composers Hindemith, Weill and Eisler, influenced by the new techniques of montage in the visual arts and seeking new means of expression. Also included is The Mother, based on Gorky's novel about the progress of a factory strike in Tver and the journey of a peasant mother from illiteracy to card-carrying communism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe translators include H R Hays (The Horatians and the Curiatians), Ralph Manheim (St Joan of the Stockyards), Tom Osborn (The Exception and the Rule), Geoffrey Skelton (The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent), John Willett (Lindbergh's Flight;The Decision;The Mother) and Arthur Waley (He Said Yes \/ He Said No). 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51323860091103,"sku":"9780413704603","price":47.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/iV6xiTQs7d9780413704603.webp?v=1788422398"},{"product_id":"brecht-on-theatre-the-development-of-an-aesthetic-paperback","title":"Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation-effects in directing, acting, and writing, and discusses, among other works, \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGalileo\u003c\/i\u003e. Also included is \"A Short Organum for the Theatre,\" Brecht's most complete exposition of his revolutionary philosophy of drama. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated and edited by John Willett, \u003ci\u003eBrecht on Theater\u003c\/i\u003e is essential to an understanding of one of the twentieth century's most influential dramatists.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis important volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51324145500383,"sku":"9780809005420","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/9fZL6Fpd0r9780809005420.webp?v=1788426117"},{"product_id":"galileo-paperback","title":"Galileo - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eConsidered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileo explores the question of a scientist's social and ethical responsibility, as the brilliant Galileo must choose between his life and his life's work when confronted with the demands of the Inquisition. Through the dramatic characterization of the famous physicist, Brecht examines the issues of scientific morality and the difficult relationship between the intellectual and authority. This version of the play is the famous one that was brought to completion by Brecht himself, working with Charles Laughton, who played Galileo in the first two American productions (Hollywood and New York, 1947). Since then the play has become a classic in the world repertoire. \"The play which most strongly stamped on my mind a sense of Brecht's great stature as an artist of the modern theatre was Galileo.\" - Harold Clurman; \"Thoughtful and profoundly sensitive.\" - Newsweek.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51324160999647,"sku":"9780802130594","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/rGv-4r6yer9780802130594.webp?v=1788426196"},{"product_id":"mother-courage-and-her-children-paperback","title":"Mother Courage and Her Children - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In its humor, irony, and truth, it is a work to welcome and cherish.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modem stage, \u003ci\u003eMother Courage and Her Children\u003c\/i\u003e is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling (\"Mother Courage\"), an itinerant trader, as she pulls her wagon of wares and her children through the blood and carnage of Europe's religious wars. Battered by hardships, brutality, and the degradation and death of her children, she ultimately finds herself alone with the one thing in which she truly believes--her ramshackle wagon with its tattered flag and freight of boots and brandy. Fitting herself in its harness, the old woman manages, with the last of her strength, to drag it onward to the next battle. In the enduring figure of Mother Courage, Bertolt Brecht has created one of the most extraordinary characters in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51324161720543,"sku":"9780802130822","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/S9woIL_pZp9780802130822.webp?v=1788426200"},{"product_id":"the-good-person-of-szechwan-paperback","title":"The Good Person Of Szechwan - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Brecht's dark, dazzling world-view...makes an absolutely devastating impact. The play is fuelled by the brilliant perception that everyone requires such a dual or split personality to survive.' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree gods come to earth hoping to discover one really good person. No one can be found until they meet Shen Te, a prostitute with a heart of gold. 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