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The legacy of Bertolt Brecht is much contested, whether by those who wish to forget or to vilify his politics, but his stature as the outstanding political playwright and poet of the twentieth century is unforgettably established in this major critical work. Fredric Jameson elegantly dissects the intricate connections between Brecht’s drama and politics, demonstrating the way these combined to shape a unique and powerful influence on a profoundly troubled epoch. Jameson sees Brecht’s method as a multi-layered process of reflection and self-reflection, reference and self-reference, which tears open a gap for individuals to situate themselves historically, to think about themselves in the third person, and to use that self-projection in history as a basis for judgement. Emphasising the themes of separation, distance, multiplicity, choice and contradiction in Brecht’s entire corpus, Jameson’s study engages in a dialogue with a cryptic work, unpublished in Brecht’s lifetime, entitled Me-ti; Book of Twists and Turns. This text is seen by Jameson as key to understanding Brecht’s critical reflections on dialectics and his orientally informed fascination with flow and flux, change and the non-eternal. For Jameson, Brecht is not prescriptive but performative. His plays do not provide answers but attempt to show people how to perform the act of thinking, how to begin to search for answers themselves. Brecht represents the ceaselessness of transformation while at the same time alienating it, interrupting it, making it comprehensible by making it strange. And thereby, in breaking it up by analysis, the possibility emerges of its reconstitution under a new law.

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Traces the life of the modern German playwright, discusses the influences on his work, and explains his theory of epic theater

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in 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 Equals Man and The Elephant Calf. The Threepenny Opera is the story of the mercurial beggar turned entrepeneur Peachum and his battles with the criminal Mac 'the Knife'; Mahagonny, an operatic satire on the search for an American capitalist utopia; The Seven Deadly Sins is a ballet with songs that predicts the downfall of the petty bourgeosie and was first performed as the Nazis planned their book burning exercise. Man equals Man is an exploration of the theory of equality and The Elephant Calf is a play within a play based on an Indian folk story.The translators include W H Auden and Chester Kallman, Ralph Manheim, Gerhard Nellhaus and John Willett. 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.

"Vierzig Jahre, und mein Werk ist der Abgesang des Jahrtausends", schrieb Bertolt Brecht 1920. Am Beginn des neuen Jahrtausends hat sich die überragende Bedeutung Brechts nicht nur für die deutsche Literatur, sondern auch für die Weltliteratur erwiesen. Das "Brecht-Handbuch" wird nun in vollständig neu bearbeiteter und erweiterter Form vorgelegt. Es basiert auf dem Wissensstand der Großen Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe der Werke Bertolt Brechts (1988-2000), und es bietet in fünf Bänden eine Einführung in das Gesamtwerk, präsentiert den aktuellen Forschungsstand, stellt ein benutzerfreundliches, leicht überschaubares und zuverlässiges Nachschlagewerk dar. In über 250 monographisch angelegten Einzelartikeln, von mehr als 50 Brecht-Forschern des In- und Auslands erarbeitet, werden Überblicke über Zeitabschnitte des Brechtschen Schaffens und Stilentwicklungen gegeben.

Fourty-two songs in German and English by one of the great playwrights of the 20th century in collaboration with the composer of German political cabaret songs of the 20s and 30s. Peace Song, Solidarity Song, Easter Sunday, Do Not Cry Marie, and Song Of A German Mother.

"Vierzig Jahre, und mein Werk ist der Abgesang des Jahrtausends", schrieb Bertolt Brecht 1920. Am Beginn des neuen Jahrtausends hat sich die überragende Bedeutung Brechts nicht nur für die deutsche Literatur, sondern auch für die Weltliteratur erwiesen. Das "Brecht-Handbuch" wird nun in vollständig neu bearbeiteter und erweiterter Form vorgelegt. Es basiert auf dem Wissensstand der Großen Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe der Werke Bertolt Brechts (1988-2000), und es bietet in fünf Bänden eine Einführung in das Gesamtwerk, präsentiert den aktuellen Forschungsstand, stellt ein benutzerfreundliches, leicht überschaubares und zuverlässiges Nachschlagewerk dar. In über 250 monographisch angelegten Einzelartikeln, von mehr als 50 Brecht-Forschern des In- und Auslands erarbeitet, werden Überblicke über Zeitabschnitte des Brechtschen Schaffens und Stilentwicklungen gegeben.

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Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.The seventh volume of Brecht's Collected Plays contains the plays which Brecht wrote during his six-year stay in the United States from 1942 to 1948. The Visions of Simone Machard is a French resistance version of the Joan of Arc story. Schweyk in the Second World War transposes Hasek's 'good soldier' to the Prague of Hitler and Heydrich. The Caucasian Chalk Circle, based on the biblical story of the judgement of Solomon, was originally written for production on Broadway, with W. H. Auden responsible for the verse. A morality masterpiece, the play powerfully demonstrates Brecht's pioneering theatrical techniques and has since become one of his most popular works.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.

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The latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into EnglishVolume 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 (1948) is a bold adaptation of Holderlin's classic German translation of Sophocles' play. A reflection on resistance and dictatorship in the aftermath of Nazism, it was a radical new experiment in epic theatre. THE DAYS OF THE COMMUNE (1949) is a semi-documentary account of the Paris Commune, and Brecht's most serious and ambitious historical play. TURANDOT is Brecht's version of the classic Chinese story is a satire on the intelligentsia of the Weimar Republic, Nazi bureaucracy, and other targets.

This selection of Bertolt Brecht's critical writing charts the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics over four decades. The volume demonstrates how the theories of Epic Theatre and Alienation evolved and contains notes and essays on the staging of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, Galileo, and many others of his plays. Also included is A Short Organum for the Theatre, Brecht's most complete statement of his revolutionary philosophy of the theatre.

Provides a detailed portrait of the renowned poet, playwright, theatrical director, and political theorist, examining both his volatile public and personal relationships, and sorting through the contradictions and inconsistencies of his views

Fourty-two songs in German and English by one of the great playwrights of the 20th century in collaboration with the composer of German political cabaret songs of the 20s and 30s. Peace Song, Solidarity Song, Easter Sunday, Do Not Cry Marie, and Song Of A German Mother.

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Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht's classic plays from the 1930sVolume 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's Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in the Germany Brecht had to leave in 1933. The Trial of Lucullus, a starkly pacifist text originally written in response to a commission from Swedish radio, portrays the Roman general tried by the Underworld for his military triumphs. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, unique in Brecht's work, consists of some thirty short scenes of life under the Nazis between 1933 and 1938, designed for use by groups in exile. Señora Carrara's Rifles is based on J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea, but relocated by Brecht in the Spanish Civil War. Also included are two one-act plays, Dansen and How Much is Your Iron?, minor works designed for amateurs in Scandinavia, where the Brechts lived till spring 1941.The volume includes an introduction and notes by Tom Kuhn and John Willett, as well as Brecht's own notes on the texts.

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.This sixth volume of Brecht's Collected Plays contains three plays he wrote while in exile during the early stages of the Second World War. In Brecht's famous parable The Good Person of Szechwan, the gods come to earth in search of a thoroughly good person. Noone can be found until they meet Shen Te, a prostitute with a heart ofgold. Rewarded by the gods, she gives up her profession and buys atabacco shop but finds it is impossible to survive as a good person ina corrupt world without the support of her ruthless alter ego Shui Ta.The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a savage satire on the rise of Hitler, wittily transposed to gangland Chicago. Brecht's compelling parable continues to have relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today. Written in 1940 during Brecht's exile in Finland, Puntila is one of hisgreatest creations, to be ranked alongside Galileo and Mother Courage.A hard-drinking Finnish landowner, Puntila suffers from a dividedpersonality: when drunk he is human and humane; when sober, surly andself-centred. The play contains some of the best comedy Brecht wrotefor the theatre. 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.

“In his analysis of Brecht, Jameson forgoes the sort of chronological representation of Brecht in his various ‘stages’ (the early Brecht, the political Brecht, the mature Brecht) that characterizes most analyses of his work and instead asks that we recognize the various layers of history, overlapping in time, not space, which ultimately constitute who we understand as ‘Brecht.’”—The Bookpress“Jameson puts demands on the reader, requiring great effort just to keep up, but those who apply themselves will come away with new admiration for Brecht as artist and as thinker. Recommended.”—Choice“It is a rich book, one that strikes out in many different directions at once ... perhaps the secret of Jameson’s greatness, like Brecht’s, is that he doesn’t adhere to his method too strictly.”—In These Times“This book contains a highly recommendable, elegant dissection of Brecht’s method, from estrangements to allegory and beyond.”—Modern Drama

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.The fifth volume in the Brecht Collected Plays series brings together two of Brecht's best-known and most frequently performed and studied plays: Life of Galileo and Mother Courage and Her Children. Galileo, which examines the conflict between free inquiry and official ideology, contains one of Brecht's most human and complex central characters. Temporarily silenced by the Inquisition's threat of torture, and forced to abjure his theories publicly, Galileo continues to work in private, eventually smuggling his work out of the country. 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 government or official ideology, Life of Galileo has few equals. Mother Courage is usually seen as Brecht's greatest work. Remaining a powerful indictment of war and social injustice, it is an epic drama set in the seventeenth century during the Thirty Years' War. The plot follows the resilient Mother Courage who survives by running a commissary business that profits from all sides. As the war claims all of her children in turn, the play poignantly demonstrates that no one can profit from the war without being subject to its terrible cost also.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.