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Brecht Collected Plays: 6: Good Person of Szechwan; The Resistible Riseof Arturo Ui; Mr Puntila and his Man Matti: Good Person of Szechwan; The ... Arturo Ui; Mr Puntila and his Man Matti: 06 Paperback – 1 August 2006

by Bertolt Brecht (Author), John Willett (Editor), Ralph Manheim (Editor)
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'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 on the run in 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. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a savage satire on the rise of Hitler, wittily transposed to gangland Chicago. Mr Puntila and his Man Matti is Brecht''s finest comedy, built around the dual personality of its central character. 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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  2. Print length
    468 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    METHUEN DRAMA
  5. Publication date
    1 August 2006
  6. Dimensions
    12.7 x 2.63 x 20.32 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    0413685802
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0413685803
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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.



John Willett (1917-2002) was the greatest English language authority on Brecht the writer and man of the theatre. The foremost translator and editor of Brecht's drama, poetry, letters, diaries, theatrical essays and fiction, Willett produced a dozen volumes for Methuen Drama on the greatest modern German writer.

Ralph Manheim (b. New York, 1907) was an American translator of German and French literature. His translating career began with a translation of Mein Kempf in which Manheim set out to reproduce Hitler's idiosyncratic, often grammatically aberrant style. In collaboration with John Willett, Manheim translated the works of Bertolt Brecht. The Pen/Ralph Manheim Medal for translation, inaugurated in his name, is a major lifetime achievement award in the field of translation. He himself won its predecessor, the PEN translation prize, in 1964. Manheim died in Cambridge in 1992. He was 85.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ METHUEN DRAMA; 1st edition (1 August 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 468 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0413685802
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0413685803
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 2.63 x 20.32 cm
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I am a HUGE fan of Brecht, and I have been looking for an edition of all of his plays. This came out in 8 books, and I bought all of them. The publication parameters are all I could wish for, and I knew what I was getting when I ordered the books. I am extremely happy. This is volume 6.
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