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  • The Threepenny Opera

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. It focuses on the feud between Macheaf - an amoral criminal - and his father in law, a racketeer who controls and exploits London's beggars and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • War Primer

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War IIIn 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 newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a unique attempt to understand the truth of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    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 small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche - from Al Capone to Shakespeare's Richard III and Goethe's Faust - Brecht's compelling parable continues ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Brecht Collected Plays: 1

    Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by John Willett, Jean Benedetti, Ernest Borneman, Richard Grunberger, Michael Hamburger, Gerhard Nellhaus, Peter Tegel, Eva Geiser0 ...
    Series Book 1 - World Classics
    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.Volume One of Brecht's Collected Plays contains Brecht's first performed stage works. Baal is inspired by Brecht's student life in Augsburg and follows the life of a young poet on the rocky road to inspiration; Drums ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Threepenny Opera

    by Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim, John Willett ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim, John Willett ...
    Series series Student Editions
    This Student Edition of Brecht's satire on the capitalist society of the Weimar Republic features an extensiveintroduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion ofthe context, themes, characters, style and language as well asquestions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text.It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature.Based on John Gay's ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Mother Courage and Her Children

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by John Willett ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part with her livelihood - the wagon. The Berlin production of 1949, with Helene Weigel as Mother ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Fear and Misery of the Third Reich

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by John Willett ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    Also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, this is a sequence of twenty-four realistic sketches showing how "ordinary" life under the Nazis was subtly permeated by suspicion and anxiety. Written in exile in Denmark and first staged in 1938 it was inspired in part by his recent trip to Moscow where he had been researching tasks for the anti-Nazi effort. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by Tania Stern, W. H. Auden, James Stern ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    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 to the rascally judge, Azdak, one of Brecht's most vivid creations, this story has a happy outcome ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Life Of Galileo

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by John Willett ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    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 into publicly abjuring his theories but, despite his self-contempt, goes on working in private, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Mother Courage and Her Children

    by Bertolt Brecht, Katherine Hollander ...
    Translated by John Willett ...
    Series series Student Editions
    This new Student Edition, featuring the classic John Willett translation of the play, includes an introduction by Katherine Hollander, which explores the following:* Contexts (Thirty Years War, 1618-1648; World War II and exile; sources; influential figures such as Brecht, Margarete Steffin, Helene Weigel and Karin Michaelis)* Themes (war; nature; capitalism)* Dramatic devices (epic theatre)* ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Threepenny Opera

    by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill ...
    Translated by John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Student Editions
    One of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble).Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho.With Kurt Weill's music, which was one of ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The Good Person Of Szechwan

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by John Willett ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    Brecht's famous parable, written in exile in 1939-41, shows that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. In it, the gods come to earth in search of enough good people to justify their existence. They find Shen Teh, a good-hearted but penniless prostitute, and make her a gift that enables her to set up her own business. But her goodness brings ruin and she must disguise herself ... Read more

    $13.99 USD