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  • Brecht In Context

    by John Willett ...
    New edition, revised for the centenary of Brecht's birth, containing additional updated materialIn this classic study, John Willett sets in context not only Brecht the theatre practitioner but Brecht the writer and man of his time. Through chapters on Brecht's relationships and attitudes to contemporary politics, English and American literature, Expressionism, music, art and cinema, as well as to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • 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

    $19.99 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

  • Shapers of Worlds

    Science fiction & fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers

    by Edward Willett, Tanya Huff, John Scalzi, John C. Wright, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Julie E. Czerneda, Shelley Adina, Derek Künsken, Thoraiya Dyer, Gareth L. Powell, Seanan McGuire, Fonda Lee, Christopher Ruocchio, David Brin, D. J. Butler, Dr. Charles E. Gannon, David Weber, Joe Haldeman ...
    Series Book 1 - Shapers of Worlds
    Within these pages lie eighteen stories, from eighteen worlds shaped by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its first year. Some are international bestsellers. Among them are winners and nominees for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Aurora, Sunburst, Aurealis, Ditmar, British Science Fiction Association ... Read more

    $8.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $19.99 CAD

  • Life Of Galileo

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by John Willett ...
    Series 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 into publicly abjuring his theories but, despite his self-contempt, goes on working in private, ... 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

  • Brecht Collected Plays: 1

    Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by John Willett, Jean Benedetti, Ernest Borneman, Richard Grunberger, Michael Hamburger, Gerhard Nellhaus, Peter Tegel, Eva Geiser0 ...
    Series Book 1 - World Classics
    Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in 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 is inspired by Brecht's student life in Augsburg and follows the life of a young poet on the rocky road to inspiration; Drums ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    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. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche - from Al Capone to Shakespeare's Richard III and Goethe's Faust - Brecht's compelling parable continues ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • My Battery Is Low and It Is Getting Dark

    by Jacey Bedford, Kari Sperring, Stephen Leigh, William Leisner, John G. Hartness, Edward Willett, Dana Berube, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, Anthony Lowe, Chris Kocher, Brian Hugenbruch, Jose Pablo Iriarte, Alethea Kontis, Alexander Gideon ...
    A military attack drone turned shepherd. A train on the London Underground evolving into something new and wondrous. A troupe of robotic actors struggling to find meaning when the audience has disappeared. Explore the myriad ideas of what happens when out-of-date and abandoned technologies are given a second life—one that takes them in a new direction, far outside their intended programming and ... Read more

    $9.85 CAD

  • Mother Courage and Her Children

    by Bertolt Brecht, Katherine Hollander ...
    Translated by John Willett ...
    Series series Student Editions
    This new Student Edition, featuring the classic John Willett translation of the play, includes an introduction by Katherine Hollander, which explores the following:* Contexts (Thirty Years War, 1618-1648; World War II and exile; sources; influential figures such as Brecht, Margarete Steffin, Helene Weigel and Karin Michaelis)* Themes (war; nature; capitalism)* Dramatic devices (epic theatre)* ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD