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Brecht Plays 8: The Antigone of Sophocles, The Days of the Commune, Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress: The Antigone of Sophocles, The Days of the ... Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress: 08 Paperback – 1 August 2006

by Bertolt Brecht (Author), Tom Kuhn (Editor), David Constantine (Editor)
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'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 (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.'
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  2. Print length
    300 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    METHUEN DRAMA
  5. Publication date
    1 August 2006
  6. Dimensions
    12.7 x 1.65 x 20.32 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    0413773523
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0413773524
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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.



David Constantine was for thirty years a university teacher of German language and literature. He has published several volumes of poetry, including Nine Fathom Deep; also a novel, Davies, and three collections of short stories, including The Shieling. He is a translator and editor of Holderlin, Goethe, Kleist and Brecht. His translation of Goethe's Faust was published by Penguin. With his wife Helen he edits Modern Poetry in Translation.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ METHUEN DRAMA; 1st edition (1 August 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0413773523
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0413773524
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.65 x 20.32 cm
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Tom Kuhn

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Tom Kuhn teaches modern German literature at the University of Oxford, UK, and is a Fellow of St Hugh's College.

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Lorraine Forman
1.0 out of 5 stars Antigone
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One of the worst translations I have ever read. The structures is so clumsy and the choice of vocabulary so peculiar, one would think that the translator had just completed a language course for non-English speakers.
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BookwormAnnie
5.0 out of 5 stars Oh so useful for my first MA essay
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 January 2015
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Oh so useful for my first MA essay. It was on Antigone and compared the text by Sophocles in the 5thC BCE alongside the one written by Jean Anouilh in 1944 but Brecht had a go at it too and I was able to bring in the differences between his and Anouilh's versions. I got to like Brecht when I studied his play 'Galileo'.
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