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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Brecht Plays 8
• Subtitle: The Antigone of Sophocles; The Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress
• Author: Bertolt Brecht
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780413773524
• ISBN: 0413773523
• ID: 04443443
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 314 g
• Dimensions: 202 × 165 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. August 2004

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