Bertolt Brecht: 53 books
by Bertolt Brecht, Hanns Eisler
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1967
Here are 42 poems by Bertolt Brecht, including several from various plays, with musical settings by Hanns Eisler. Eric Bentley has compiled the collection, created singable English translations (which appear along with the German), and supplied historical notes on the songs. Earl Robinson has supervised...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II
In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism.
He takes photographs from...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Bertolt Brecht's extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar's efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his planned biography, confronted by a baffling range of contradictory views. Was Caesar an opportunist, a permanently...
Brecht Collected Plays: 4
Round Heads & Pointed Heads; Fear & Misery of the Third Reich; Senora Carrar's Rifles; Trial of Lucullus; Dansen; How Much Is Your Iron?
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
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...
Brecht on Performance
Messingkauf and Modelbooks
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Now available in Bloomsbury Revelations series, Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings about the craft of acting and realising texts for the stage. It crystallises and makes concrete many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writing...
Brecht on Performance
Messingkauf and Modelbooks
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Brecht on Performance: Dialogues, Models, Practice Pieces presents a selection of Brecht's principle writings for actors and directors and is suitable for acting schools, directors, actors, students and teachers of Theatre Studies. Through these texts Brecht provides a general practical approach...
Brecht Plays 8
The Antigone of Sophocles; The Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
The latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English
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's ANTIGONE...
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 & the Rule; The Horatians & the Curiatians; St Joan of the Stockyards
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2015
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...
Brecht and the Writer's Workshop
Fatzer and Other Dramatic Projects
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Brecht was never inclined to see any of his plays as completely finished, and this volume collects some of the most important theatrical projects and fragments that were always to remain 'works in progress'. Offering an invaluable insight into the writer's working methods and practices, the collection...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child. The message of Brecht's parable is that resources should go to those who will make best use of them. Thanks...
by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht's greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo's heretical discoveries about the solar system bring him to the attention of the Inquisition. He is scared...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a fictional, small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade in the 1930s. The satirical allegory...
by Bertolt Brecht, Hugh Rorrison
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict
over possession of a child features an extensive
introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of
the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as
questions for further study and notes on words...
by Bertolt Brecht, Hugh Rorrison
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
This Student Edition of Brecht's anti-war masterpiece features an extensive
introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of
the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as
questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text.
It is the perfect...