Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books
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...
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 classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology 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...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
In this version of the story of Joan of Arc, Brecht transforms her into 'Joan Dark', a member of the 'Black Straw Hats' (a Salvation Army-like group) in twentieth century Chicago. The play charts Joan's battle with Pierpont Mauler, the unctuous owner of a meat-packing plant. Like her predecessor,...
by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This Student Edition of Brecht's satire on the capitalist society of the Weimar Republic 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...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
The city burns in the heat of civil war and a servant girl sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child. But when peace is finally restored, the boy's mother comes to claim him. Calling upon the ancient tradition of the Chalk Circle, a comical judge sets about resolving the dispute. But in...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century's most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and politics. Here are a cross-section of Brecht's wide-ranging thoughts which offer us an extraordinary window onto the concerns of a...
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 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: 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...
Berliner Ensemble Adaptations
The Tutor; Coriolanus; The Trial of Joan of Arc at Rouen, 1431; Don Juan; Trumpets and Drums
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This volume contains Brecht's post-1950 adaptations of world dramatic classics for the Berliner Ensemble. Brecht's remodeled versions show all of the great dramatist's characteristic preoccupations: hatred of personal greatness, admiration of the people and hatred of war unless waged on behalf of...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler – recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic satire on the rise of Hitler 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...
by Bertolt Brecht, Bruce Norris
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Here's some advice:
Don't ever underestimate Arturo.
You'll be found out and stopped, eventually,
Just like I stopped this fuckin' treachery
And better late than never. Now ya see
What happens when ya fuck with me, ya lousy
Rat-fuck bastards?
Chicago. A city of jazz and gangsters, prohibition...