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A Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Classics
Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun. The figure of Galileo, whose ‘heretical' discoveries about the solar system brought him to the attention of the Inquisition ...Show more
Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Classics | Series: Student Editions
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and n ...Show more
Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Classics | 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 int ...Show more
The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays by Bertolt Brecht; Eric Bentley (Translator)
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Category: Classics
These six plays represent the best and most humorous of Brecht's shorter works. The Jewish Wife is from the Fear and Misery in the Third Reich cycle of one-act plays, which, along with In Search of Justice and The Informer, chromicles the hardships of life in Nazi Germany. The Exception and the Rule, on ...Show more
The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: 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 amo ...Show more
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