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  1. How much is your iron?
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    Svendson is an ironmonger who suddenly picks up a new customer; apparently wealthy, and with a healthy desire for Svendson's wares, the customer keeps coming back with orders for iron bars. Still, Svendson's conscience is pricked by this avid... more

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    Svendson is an ironmonger who suddenly picks up a new customer; apparently wealthy, and with a healthy desire for Svendson's wares, the customer keeps coming back with orders for iron bars. Still, Svendson's conscience is pricked by this avid stockpiling of weapons (though not enough to stop selling; particularly when he sees some of his fellow merchants also selling to the customer, while his own orders continue to double). Eventually though, Svendson's luck runs out, when the customer eventually stops paying his way. Written in early 1939, 'How Much is Your Iron?' is a one-act agitprop piece that highlights the dangers of appeasement, and questions the morality of trade with a belligerent customer.

     
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    Contributor: Kastner, Martin (Übersetzer); Kastner, Rose (Übersetzer)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781408168981
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    Series: Bloomsbury Drama Online - Core Collection
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Previously issued in print: in Collected plays four. London: Methuen Drama, 2003

    Translated from the German
  2. Turandot, or, The whitewashers' congress
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    For his adaptation of the story of the emperor's daughter Turandot and the suitors who would marry her, Brecht has the action take place during a strike by clothes-makers - and the clothesless - who rise up in protest at the Emperor's dishonest... more

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    For his adaptation of the story of the emperor's daughter Turandot and the suitors who would marry her, Brecht has the action take place during a strike by clothes-makers - and the clothesless - who rise up in protest at the Emperor's dishonest manipulation of the cotton-market in which he has a monopoly: he is withholding stock until the prices rise. In order to control public relations, the Emperor hires three thinkers to invent reasons as to why the cotton market should be so dry; the winning thinker will win the hand of his daughter. 'Turandot' premiered at Zurich Schauspielhaus, in February 1969.

     
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    Contributor: Kuhn, Tom (Übersetzer)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781408168677
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    Previously issued in print: in Collected plays eight. London: Methuen Drama, 2004

    Translated from the German
  3. A life of Galileo
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    'Life of Galileo' examines the tension between the pursuit of knowledge and the power of official ideology, and contains one of Brecht's most human and complex central characters. It was first performed in Zurich in 1943. As an examination of the... more

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    'Life of Galileo' examines the tension between the pursuit of knowledge and the power of official ideology, and contains one of Brecht's most human and complex central characters. It was first performed in Zurich in 1943. As an examination of the problems that face not only the scientist but also the whole spirit of free inquiry when brought into conflict with the requirements of authority, 'Life of Galileo' has few equals. This version is translated by Mark Ravenhill.

     
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    Contributor: Ravenhill, Mark (Übersetzer); Gearing, Deborah (Übersetzer)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781472506184
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    Series: Bloomsbury Drama Online - Core Collection
    Other subjects: Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (80 pages)
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  4. In the jungle of cities
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    When lumber dealer Shlink meets book clerk George Garga, they immediately conceive an irrational hatred for each other and declare war between themselves. Their fighting engulfs and eventually destroys their families and the people around them.... more

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    When lumber dealer Shlink meets book clerk George Garga, they immediately conceive an irrational hatred for each other and declare war between themselves. Their fighting engulfs and eventually destroys their families and the people around them. Depicting fraud, crime, and prostitution in an imagined version of Chicago, Brecht structured 'In the Jungle of Cities' as a boxing match between two men who do not know why they are fighting. Brecht's interest in the collision between the interests of capitalism and the good of the people is already evident in this early work.

     
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    Contributor: Nellhaus, Gerhard (Übersetzer)
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    ISBN: 9781408161388
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    Translated from the German
  5. Lux in tenebris
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    'Lux in Tenebris' is a short farce about a moralist who campaigns for the closing of brothels. It demonstrates the influence of the great clown Karl Valentin, who would later become Brecht's friend and collaborator. more

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    'Lux in Tenebris' is a short farce about a moralist who campaigns for the closing of brothels. It demonstrates the influence of the great clown Karl Valentin, who would later become Brecht's friend and collaborator.

     
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    Contributor: Geiser, Eva (Übersetzer); Borneman, Ernest (Übersetzer)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781408161388
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    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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  6. Round heads and pointed heads
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    'Round Heads and Pointed Heads' began as an adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure'. Commissioned in 1931 by stage and screen director Ludwig Berger, Brecht's ideas about the play soon took the work beyond straight adaptation, incorporating... more

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    'Round Heads and Pointed Heads' began as an adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure'. Commissioned in 1931 by stage and screen director Ludwig Berger, Brecht's ideas about the play soon took the work beyond straight adaptation, incorporating more and more elements of contemporary political satire. It tells the story of a racial conflict between two classes of citizens, those with pointed heads and those whose heads are round - both as abnormal as each other - in the fictional town of Luma. Written in the early 1930s, it finally received its premiere in Copenhagen on 4 November 1936, before being published in German in 1938.

     
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    ISBN: 9781408168981
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    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Previously issued in print: in Collected plays four. London: Methuen Drama, 2003

    Translated from the German
  7. Señora Carrar's rifles
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    Partly based on Synge's 'Riders to the Sea', 'Señora Carrar's Rifles' transposes the Irish play of the early 20th century to mid-century Andalucia. There, a fisherwoman named Teresa Carrar is trying desperately to maintain a normal life even as the... more

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    Partly based on Synge's 'Riders to the Sea', 'Señora Carrar's Rifles' transposes the Irish play of the early 20th century to mid-century Andalucia. There, a fisherwoman named Teresa Carrar is trying desperately to maintain a normal life even as the civil war closes in around her; having killed her husband it proposes now to sweep up her two sons as well. Teresa hopes to insulate her boys from the fighting, believing she can keep her head down, sew nets and send the boats out, and the war need not touch them. But tragedy strikes her eldest on the waves, causing her to rethink her position of non-engagement. Written as an Aristotelian drama, based on empathy, rather than Brecht's own theories of Epic theatre, 'Señora Carrar's Rifles' is one of Brecht's more immediately accessible plays. It premiered in Paris, 1937.

     
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    Contributor: Sauerländer, Wolfgang (Übersetzer)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781408168981
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  8. The Antigone of Sophocles
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    A prologue set in Berlin of 1945 shows two sisters whose brother has deserted from the German army and is found hanged: should they risk being seen by the SS cutting his body down? In the play itself Creon becomes a brutal aggressor who has attacked... more

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    A prologue set in Berlin of 1945 shows two sisters whose brother has deserted from the German army and is found hanged: should they risk being seen by the SS cutting his body down? In the play itself Creon becomes a brutal aggressor who has attacked Argos for the sake of its iron ore; Polyneikes deserts in protest against this war which has killed his brother; and Antigone is partly moved by a like disapproval of her uncle's policy. 'The Antigone of Sophocles' was conceived as a new experiment in the epic theatre, and is linguistically an extraordinary composition. It was first produced in February 1948.

     
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    Contributor: Constantine, David (Übersetzer)
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781408168677
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    Previously issued in print: in Collected plays eight. London: Methuen Drama, 2004

    Translated from the German
  9. The beggar, or, The dead dog
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    In 'The Beggar', a beggar dares to speak the truth to an emperor when the emperor descends to complain about the smell. It was neither produced nor published during the author's lifetime. more

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    In 'The Beggar', a beggar dares to speak the truth to an emperor when the emperor descends to complain about the smell. It was neither produced nor published during the author's lifetime.

     
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    Contributor: Hamburger, Michael (Übersetzer)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781408161388
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    Series: Bloomsbury Drama Online - Core Collection
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Previously issued in print: in Collected plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 1998

    Translated from the German
  10. The catch
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    When a fisherman's wife is woken up by her drunk husband and his friends, anger and resentments explode. 'The Catch' was neither produced nor published during the author's lifetime. more

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    When a fisherman's wife is woken up by her drunk husband and his friends, anger and resentments explode. 'The Catch' was neither produced nor published during the author's lifetime.

     
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    Contributor: Willett, John (Übersetzer)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781408161388
    Other identifier:
    Series: Bloomsbury Drama Online - Core Collection
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Previously issued in print: in Collected plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 1998

    Translated from the German
  11. The days of the Commune
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    'The Days of the Commune' tells the story of the uprising and ultimate failure of the Paris Commune in 1871, a city council in France's capital which based its policies on socialism and proclaimed its right to rule over all of France. It held out for... more

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    'The Days of the Commune' tells the story of the uprising and ultimate failure of the Paris Commune in 1871, a city council in France's capital which based its policies on socialism and proclaimed its right to rule over all of France. It held out for two months of counter-attack by the regular French army before its final defeat in May, 1871. Brecht's account of the Commune is based on Norwegian playwright Nordahl Grieg's play 'The Defeat'. In his adaptation, Brecht eschews a central protagonist, focusing instead on the Commune as characterised by the people in the street. It was first performed in November 1956, shortly after Brecht's death.

     
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    ISBN: 9781408168677
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    Previously issued in print: in Collected plays eight. London: Methuen Drama, 2004

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  12. The trial of Lucullus
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    When the Roman general and politician Lucullus dies, we witness his trial by jury, who will decide whether he takes his place among the heroes in the Elysium fields, or whether he shuffles through the shadows in the darkness of Hades' halls. Allowed... more

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    When the Roman general and politician Lucullus dies, we witness his trial by jury, who will decide whether he takes his place among the heroes in the Elysium fields, or whether he shuffles through the shadows in the darkness of Hades' halls. Allowed to defend himself, Lucullus calls forth witnesses to his great militaristic victories, including conquering the far east for Rome, only for the jury and judge to point out the human loss in each case. Ultimately, those characteristics in himself that he saw as irrelevant are his only graces, while the greatness with which he had gilded his reputation is reduced only to the charge sheet which may condemn him. 'The Trial of Lucullus' was a radio play first broadcast in May 1940.

     
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    ISBN: 9781408168981
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    Previously issued in print: in Collected plays four. London: Methuen Drama, 2003

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  13. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: 2013; ©2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London

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    Contributor: Wise, Jennifer (MitwirkendeR)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781408189603
    Series: Modern Plays Ser.
    Subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (90 pages)
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  14. Driving out a devil
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, [London]

    Brecht's early one act farce charts the attempts of a self-confident and manipulative Bavarian peasant boy to outwit the vigilant parents of a girl of his village. 'Driving Out a Devil' was neither produced nor published during the author's lifetime more

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    Brecht's early one act farce charts the attempts of a self-confident and manipulative Bavarian peasant boy to outwit the vigilant parents of a girl of his village. 'Driving Out a Devil' was neither produced nor published during the author's lifetime

     
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    Contributor: Grunberger, Richard (ÜbersetzerIn); Brecht, Bertolt
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
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    Previously issued in print: in Collected plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 1998

    Translated from the German
  15. Drums in the night
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, [London]

    It has been four years since Anna's fiancé, Andreas, was declared missing in action in the trenches of World War I. Therefore, she is understandably shocked when he reappears. Andreas discovers that in his absence, Anna has agreed to marry a man who... more

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    It has been four years since Anna's fiancé, Andreas, was declared missing in action in the trenches of World War I. Therefore, she is understandably shocked when he reappears. Andreas discovers that in his absence, Anna has agreed to marry a man who became rich dealing in the black market during the war. This 'anti-romantic' love story is set against the Spartacist uprising of 1919, an attempt by the German Communist party to destabilise the Weimar government. 'Drums in the Night' was an immediate success when first performed in 1922, and went on to play all over Germany, but Brecht later admitted that he only wrote the play to make money

     
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    Contributor: Willett, John (ÜbersetzerIn); Brecht, Bertolt
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    Previously issued in print: in Collected plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 1998

    Translated from the German
  16. How much is your iron?
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, [London]

    Svendson is an ironmonger who suddenly picks up a new customer; apparently wealthy, and with a healthy desire for Svendson's wares, the customer keeps coming back with orders for iron bars. Still, Svendson's conscience is pricked by this avid... more

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    Svendson is an ironmonger who suddenly picks up a new customer; apparently wealthy, and with a healthy desire for Svendson's wares, the customer keeps coming back with orders for iron bars. Still, Svendson's conscience is pricked by this avid stockpiling of weapons (though not enough to stop selling; particularly when he sees some of his fellow merchants also selling to the customer, while his own orders continue to double). Eventually though, Svendson's luck runs out, when the customer eventually stops paying his way. Written in early 1939, 'How Much is Your Iron?' is a one-act agitprop piece that highlights the dangers of appeasement, and questions the morality of trade with a belligerent customer

     
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    Contributor: Kastner, Martin (ÜbersetzerIn); Kastner, Rose (ÜbersetzerIn); Brecht, Bertolt
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
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    Previously issued in print: in Collected plays four. London: Methuen Drama, 2003

    Translated from the German
  17. In the jungle of cities
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, [London]

    When lumber dealer Shlink meets book clerk George Garga, they immediately conceive an irrational hatred for each other and declare war between themselves. Their fighting engulfs and eventually destroys their families and the people around them.... more

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    When lumber dealer Shlink meets book clerk George Garga, they immediately conceive an irrational hatred for each other and declare war between themselves. Their fighting engulfs and eventually destroys their families and the people around them. Depicting fraud, crime, and prostitution in an imagined version of Chicago, Brecht structured 'In the Jungle of Cities' as a boxing match between two men who do not know why they are fighting. Brecht's interest in the collision between the interests of capitalism and the good of the people is already evident in this early work

     
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    Contributor: Nellhaus, Gerhard (ÜbersetzerIn); Brecht, Bertolt
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    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
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    Previously issued in print: in Collected plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 1998

    Translated from the German
  18. The trial of Lucullus
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, [London]

    When the Roman general and politician Lucullus dies, we witness his trial by jury, who will decide whether he takes his place among the heroes in the Elysium fields, or whether he shuffles through the shadows in the darkness of Hades' halls. Allowed... more

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    When the Roman general and politician Lucullus dies, we witness his trial by jury, who will decide whether he takes his place among the heroes in the Elysium fields, or whether he shuffles through the shadows in the darkness of Hades' halls. Allowed to defend himself, Lucullus calls forth witnesses to his great militaristic victories, including conquering the far east for Rome, only for the jury and judge to point out the human loss in each case. Ultimately, those characteristics in himself that he saw as irrelevant are his only graces, while the greatness with which he had gilded his reputation is reduced only to the charge sheet which may condemn him. 'The Trial of Lucullus' was a radio play first broadcast in May 1940

     
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    Contributor: Hays, Hoffman Reynolds (ÜbersetzerIn); Brecht, Bertolt
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    Media type: Book
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    Previously issued in print: in Collected plays four. London: Methuen Drama, 2003

    Translated from the German
  19. Turandot, or, The whitewashers' congress
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, [London]

    For his adaptation of the story of the emperor's daughter Turandot and the suitors who would marry her, Brecht has the action take place during a strike by clothes-makers - and the clothesless - who rise up in protest at the Emperor's dishonest... more

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    For his adaptation of the story of the emperor's daughter Turandot and the suitors who would marry her, Brecht has the action take place during a strike by clothes-makers - and the clothesless - who rise up in protest at the Emperor's dishonest manipulation of the cotton-market in which he has a monopoly: he is withholding stock until the prices rise. In order to control public relations, the Emperor hires three thinkers to invent reasons as to why the cotton market should be so dry; the winning thinker will win the hand of his daughter. 'Turandot' premiered at Zurich Schauspielhaus, in February 1969

     
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  20. A respectable wedding
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, [London]

    In 'A Respectable Wedding' (1919) Brecht ruthlessly ridiculed the apparent perfection, false morality, sentimentality and commonness of the petite bourgeoisie. The world of illusionary happiness of the petite bourgeoisie, which reaches its peak with... more

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    In 'A Respectable Wedding' (1919) Brecht ruthlessly ridiculed the apparent perfection, false morality, sentimentality and commonness of the petite bourgeoisie. The world of illusionary happiness of the petite bourgeoisie, which reaches its peak with a wedding, collapses in front of the audience as quickly as the groom's handmade furniture, which breaks even before the wedding reception finishes. 'A Respectable Wedding' was the only one of Brecht's early one act plays to be staged during his life. It premiered in Frankfurt in 1926

     
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  21. Baal
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, [London]

    The classic wandering-poet archetype of the Expressionist movement receives a dark makeover in Bertolt Brecht's 'Baal'. Brecht's first full-length play portrays the seductions and manipulations of a dissolute poet with an inexplicable appeal to... more

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    The classic wandering-poet archetype of the Expressionist movement receives a dark makeover in Bertolt Brecht's 'Baal'. Brecht's first full-length play portrays the seductions and manipulations of a dissolute poet with an inexplicable appeal to women. Baal descends from a civilised dining room to a hut in the woods, leaving a path of destruction in his wake. First performed in Leipzig in 1923, 'Baal' represents an early, almost pre-political stage in Brecht's career, and shows the playwright experimenting with elements that would become his trademarks, such as the use of song. Even as a young writer, however, Brecht provoked controversy: 'Baal' was immediately shut down by order of the city council of Leipzig

     
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  22. Dansen
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, [London]

    Dansen is a pig farmer and a respectable member of the community. His fellow members of the commerce class in the town often meet, to play cards, sign contracts and sort out disagreements; it is a wholly satisfying way of life. But this cosy... more

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    Dansen is a pig farmer and a respectable member of the community. His fellow members of the commerce class in the town often meet, to play cards, sign contracts and sort out disagreements; it is a wholly satisfying way of life. But this cosy arrangement is upset with the arrival of a stranger, a man who is intent on breaking contracts and instigating the most hostile of takeovers with the point of a pistol. He forces Dansen into collaboration: against his former colleagues, his better judgement and his own interests. Written in early 1939, 'Dansen' is a one-act agitprop piece which highlights the dangers of appeasement in the face of aggressive behaviour from a self-appointed enemy

     
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  23. Lux in tenebris
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: 2013
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    'Lux in Tenebris' is a short farce about a moralist who campaigns for the closing of brothels. It demonstrates the influence of the great clown Karl Valentin, who would later become Brecht's friend and collaborator more

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    'Lux in Tenebris' is a short farce about a moralist who campaigns for the closing of brothels. It demonstrates the influence of the great clown Karl Valentin, who would later become Brecht's friend and collaborator

     
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    Contributor: Geiser, Eva (ÜbersetzerIn); Borneman, Ernest (ÜbersetzerIn); Brecht, Bertolt
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  24. Round heads and pointed heads
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, [London]

    'Round Heads and Pointed Heads' began as an adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure'. Commissioned in 1931 by stage and screen director Ludwig Berger, Brecht's ideas about the play soon took the work beyond straight adaptation, incorporating... more

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    'Round Heads and Pointed Heads' began as an adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure'. Commissioned in 1931 by stage and screen director Ludwig Berger, Brecht's ideas about the play soon took the work beyond straight adaptation, incorporating more and more elements of contemporary political satire. It tells the story of a racial conflict between two classes of citizens, those with pointed heads and those whose heads are round - both as abnormal as each other - in the fictional town of Luma. Written in the early 1930s, it finally received its premiere in Copenhagen on 4 November 1936, before being published in German in 1938

     
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  25. Señora Carrar's rifles
    Author: Brecht, Bertolt
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, [London]

    Partly based on Synge's 'Riders to the Sea', 'Señora Carrar's Rifles' transposes the Irish play of the early 20th century to mid-century Andalucia. There, a fisherwoman named Teresa Carrar is trying desperately to maintain a normal life even as the... more

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    Partly based on Synge's 'Riders to the Sea', 'Señora Carrar's Rifles' transposes the Irish play of the early 20th century to mid-century Andalucia. There, a fisherwoman named Teresa Carrar is trying desperately to maintain a normal life even as the civil war closes in around her; having killed her husband it proposes now to sweep up her two sons as well. Teresa hopes to insulate her boys from the fighting, believing she can keep her head down, sew nets and send the boats out, and the war need not touch them. But tragedy strikes her eldest on the waves, causing her to rethink her position of non-engagement. Written as an Aristotelian drama, based on empathy, rather than Brecht's own theories of Epic theatre, 'Señora Carrar's Rifles' is one of Brecht's more immediately accessible plays. It premiered in Paris, 1937

     
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