Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht Journals, 1934-55 (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413655103

''Those who dismiss Brecht as a yea-sayer to Stalinism are advised to read these journals and moderate their opinion.' (Paul Bailey, Weekend Telegraph) Brecht's Work Journals cover the period from 1938 to 1955...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:576

USD $67.28

 

Brecht Collected Plays: 1 (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413685704

'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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:480

USD $28.84

 

Brecht Collected Plays: 2 (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413685605

'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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:480

USD $28.84

 

Brecht Collected Plays: 3 (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413704603

'The most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht''s plays in the English language Volume Three of Brecht''s Collected Plays includes St Joan of the Stockyards - a play which recasts St Joan as Joan Dark springing hope into the hearts of factory workers at the mercy of meatpacker king Pierpont Mauler threatening cuts in the Depression...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

USD $28.84

 

Brecht Collected Plays: 3.2 (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413708106

'One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century (Observer) Brecht''s Lehrstucke or short ''didactic'' pieces written during the years 1929 to 1933...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:320

USD $48.06

 

Brecht Collected Plays: 4 (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413704702

'Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht''s classic plays from the 1930s. Volume 4 of Brecht''s Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:464

USD $28.84

 

Brecht Collected Plays: 4 (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413472304

'The long-awaited volume of Brecht''s classic plays from the 1930s. Volume 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...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:448

USD $48.06

 

Brecht Collected Plays: 6 (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413685803

'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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:480

USD $28.84

 

Brecht Collected Plays: 7 (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413685902

'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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:454

USD $28.84

 

Brecht Collected Plays: 8 (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413758705

'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...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:292

USD $44.82

 

Brecht On Art & Politics (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413758903

'The first single-volume anthology of Brecht''s writings on both art and politics. This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century''s most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:368

USD $44.82

 

Brecht On Theatre (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413388001

'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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:32

USD $22.43

 

Brecht Plays 8 (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413773524

'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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:300

USD $28.84

 

Brecht Plays: 5 (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413699701

'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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:464

USD $28.84

 

Caucasian Chalk Circle (MSE)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413544506

'Brecht projects an ancient Chinese story onto a realistic setting in Soviet Georgia. In a theme that echoes the Judgment of Solomon, two women argue over the possession of a child; thanks to the unruly judge...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:176

USD $15.99

 

Caucasian Chalk Circle (version by Frank McGuinness)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780713685947

A morality masterpiece, The Caucasian Chalk Circle powerfully demonstrates Brecht's pioneering theatrical techniques. This version by Frank McGuinness is published to coincide with the National Theatre's production touring the UK.

A servant girl sacrifices everything to protect a child abandoned in the heat of civil war. Order restored...more details
Format:Paperback  

USD $17.91

 

Caucasian Chalk Circle The (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780141189161

The play is a parable inspired by Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Caucasus mountains of Georgia...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:144

USD $14.71

 

Collected Plays (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413532503

Format:Paperback  Pages:191

USD $17.27

 Out Of Print

Collected Plays: Vol 6, Part 1 (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413472601

'One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century' (Observer). A parable in which the gods come to earth in search of a thoroughly good person'
Format:Hardcover  Pages:159

USD $22.43

 

Collected Plays: Vol 6, Part 3 (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413472809

''One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century' (Observer) Written when the Brecht's were in exile in Finland, Mr Puntila and his Man Matti is based on a Finnish text and is arguably Brecht's finest comedy. It is the story of a master who wishes to swap roles with his servant; in a series of hilarious scenes...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:174

USD $22.43

 

Fear and Misery in the Third Reich (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413772664

'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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:135

USD $17.27

 

Good Person Of Szechwan (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413582409

'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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:158

USD $17.27

 

Good Woman of Setzuan The (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780141189178

This play, written during Brecht's exile to the United States and set in pre-Communist China, is a parable of a young woman torn between obligation and reality...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:144

USD $14.71

 

Life Of Galileo (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413763808

'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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:276

USD $17.27

 

Messingkauf Dialogues (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413388902

'Brecht''s most important treatise on theatre The Messingkauf dialogues are the longest but in some ways the most light hearted of all Brecht''s discussions of theatre. Here Actor...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:112

USD $15.35

 

Mother Courage & Her Children (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780713684667

Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This is a new translation by Michael Hofmann. In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:112

USD $17.27

 

Mother Courage and Her Children (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413702906

'A lone woman, Anna Fierling, tries to achieve the irreconcilable aims of making money and keeping her family alive during the nightmare of the Thirty Years War. At the end of a century ravaged by war on an unprecedented scale...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:112

USD $17.27

 

Mother Courage and Her Children (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413412904

'In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part with her livelihood - the wagon. The Berlin production of 1949...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:176

USD $17.27

 

Mother Courage and Her Children (MSE)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413492708

'In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part with her livelihood - the wagon. The Berlin production of 1949...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:144

USD $17.27

 

Mr Puntila and His Man Matti (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9781408100707

Written in 1940 during Brecht's exile in Finland, Puntilais one of his greatest creations - to be ranked alongside Galileoand Mother Courage. A hard-drinking Finnish landowner...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:176

USD $17.27

 

Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (MSE)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780713685114

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:192

USD $15.99

 

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780713686746

Brecht's operatic play produced with Hauptmann, Neher and Weill was first staged in 1930. The story is that three criminals create the city of Mahagonny. Drinking...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:176

USD $19.19

 

The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413308504

'Written in exile during the Second World War, the story 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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:144

USD $15.35

 

The Life Of Galileo (MSE)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413577801

'The figure of Galileo, whose ''heretical'' discoveries about the solar system brought him to the attention of the Inquisition, is one Brecht''s most human and complex creations. Temporarily silenced by the Inquisition''s threat of torture...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:160

USD $17.27

 

The Resistable Rise Arturo Ui (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413478108

'In this savage and witty parable written in exile in 1941, Brecht recasts the rise of Hitler as a small-time Chicago gangster''s takeover of the city''s greengrocery trade. This prizewinning translation by Ralph Manheim skilfully captures the wide range of parody and pastiche in the original - from Richard III to Al Capone...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:160

USD $15.35

 

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (MSE)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413772633

'An annotated student edition of one of Brecht''s most famous plays and a classic of modern literature/theatre. Described by Brecht as ''a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all''...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:159

USD $17.27

 Out Of Print

The Threepenny Opera (Book)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413390301

'Based on John Gay''s eighteenth century Beggar''s Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theatre am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble)...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:94

USD $17.27

 

Threepenny Opera (MSE)

Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:9780413774521

'One of Brecht''s most performed and studied plays, The Threepenny Opera is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:192

USD $17.27