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  • The Threepenny Opera

    by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill ...
    Translated by John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Student Editions
    One of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble).Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho.With Kurt Weill's music, which was one of ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD

  • Bertolt Brecht

    Journals 1934 - 1955

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    This book contains selected poems, plays, and prose by Bertolt Brecht taken from various points throughout his career. It includes translations of two prose works and provides some background information on Brecht's life and career. ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti

    Book of Interventions in the Flow of Things

    by Bertolt Brecht, Tom Kuhn ...
    Translated by Antony Tatlow ...
    Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti, which remained unpublished in his own lifetime, now appears for the first time in English. Me-ti counselled against 'constructing too complete images of the world'. For this work of fragments and episodes, Brecht accumulated anecdotes, poems, personal stories and assessments of contemporary politics. Given its controversial nature, he sought a disguise, using the name of a ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • War Primer

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War IIIn this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism.He takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a unique attempt to understand the truth of ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Good Person Of Szechwan

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by John Willett ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    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, a good-hearted but penniless prostitute, and make her a gift that enables her to set up her own business. But her goodness brings ruin and she must disguise herself ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Mother Courage and Her Children

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by John Willett ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part with her livelihood - the wagon. The Berlin production of 1949, with Helene Weigel as Mother ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Brecht Collected Plays: 4

    Round Heads & Pointed Heads; Fear & Misery of the Third Reich; Senora Carrar's Rifles; Trial of Lucullus; Dansen; How Much Is Your Iron?

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by Tom Kuhn, John Willett, H. R. Hays, Martin Kastner, Rose Kastner, Wolfgang Sauerlander ...
    Series Book 4 - World Classics
    Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht's classic plays from the 1930sVolume 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, based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Collected Short Stories of Bertolt Brecht

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th-century innovators in theatre - the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky - and Germany's greatest poet of the last century, but the playwright was also a dazzling writer of stories. Storytelling permeated his art as a dramatist; fundamentally in his plays he was a storyteller. This volume collects the complete short ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • The Threepenny Opera

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Modern 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 amoral criminal - and his father in law, a racketeer who controls and exploits London's beggars and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by Jennifer Wise ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    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 fictional, small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade in the 1930s. The satirical allegory combines Brecht's Epic style of theatre with black comedy and overt didacticism.Using a wide range ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD

  • The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by David Constantine, Tom Kuhn ...
    Times Literary Supplement • Books of the Year ("The most generous available English collection of Brecht’s poetry.")A landmark literary event, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht is the most extensive English translation of Brecht’s poetry to date.Widely celebrated as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht was also, as George Steiner observed, “that very rare ... Read more

    $50.19 CAD

  • Brecht On Art And Politics

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century's most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and politics. Here are a cross-section of Brecht's wide-ranging thoughts which offer us an extraordinary window onto the concerns of a modern world in four decades of economic and political disorder. The book is designed to give wider ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD