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  • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

    de Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Threepenny Opera

    de Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle

    de Bertolt Brecht ...
    Traducido por Tania Stern, W. H. Auden, James Stern ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play 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, Azdak, one of Brecht's most vivid creations, this story has a happy outcome ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Life Of Galileo

    de Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Traducido por 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, ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Good Person Of Szechwan

    de Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

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  • Mother Courage and Her Children

    de Bertolt Brecht ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Fear and Misery of the Third Reich

    de Bertolt Brecht ...
    Traducido por John Willett ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    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. Written in exile in Denmark and first staged in 1938 it was inspired in part by his recent trip to Moscow where he had been researching tasks for the anti-Nazi effort. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Emilia

    de Morgan Lloyd Malcolm ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Winner of the Noel Coward Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy at the 2020 Olivier AwardsIn 1611 Emilia Bassano wrote a volume of radical, feminist and subversive poetry. It was one of the first published collections of poetry written by a woman in England. The little we know of Emilia Bassano is restricted to the possibility that she may have been the 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's Sonnets – and ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Cyrano de Bergerac

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    de Martin Crimp, Martin Crimp, Edmond Rostand ...
    A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.Cyrano's generous offer to act as go-between sets in motion a poignant and often hilarious love-triangle, in which each character is torn between the lure of physical attraction and the seductive power of words.Martin Crimp's ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Lake Disappointment

    de Lachlan Philpott, Luke Mullins ...
    ‘Kane and I were both rising stars. I was rising to the top of the hand-modelling world and Kane was doing his plays. Kane got his first action film and I became his double. We clicked. Everyone said so.’Kane is one of the world’s biggest movie stars. His body double has been there from the start, sharing more than just looks with his famous counterpart. The body double and Kane are to work on ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Brian Friel: Plays 3

    Three Sisters; A Month in the Country; Uncle Vanya; The Yalta Game; The Bear; Afterplay; Performances; The Home Place; Hedda Gabler

    de Brian Friel ...
    This third collection by Brian Friel contains two original works: Performances, which considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leos Janácek; and The Home Place, set in Ballybeg, Donegal, at the dawn of Home Rule. There are three masterful plays based on stories by Chekhov; and Friel's exquisite versions of Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, of Ibsen's Hedda ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Look Who's Back

    de Timur Vermes ...
    Traducido por Jamie Bulloch ...
    THE SMASH-HIT HITLER SATIRE - MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD"A brilliant book" RUSSELL KANE"Brilliant and hilarious" KEN FOLLETT"An uproarious, disturbing book that will resonate long after you turn the final page" Caroline Jowett, Daily Express"There's no question that the novel has hit upon the key paradox of our modern obsession with Hitler" Philip Olterman, Observer</e... ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD