Brecht Collected Plays: Eight: The Antigone of Sophocles; The Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewashers Congress, Paperback - Bertolt Brecht

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The latest volume in Methuens Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English Volume 8 of Brechts 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. Brechts ANTIGONE (1948) is a bold adaptation of Holderlins 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 Brechts most serious and ambitious historical play. TURANDOT is Brechts version of the classic Chinese story is a satire on the intelligentsia of the Weimar Republic, Nazi bureaucracy, and other targets.About the Author:Bertolt Brecht wa sborn in 1898 and is acknowledged as one of the great German dramatists, poet, playwright, and theatre director whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and writing have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

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