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Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	History Play The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe Rodney Bolt Bloomsbury USA Rodney Bolt’s delightful life of Marlowe plays out a surprising solution to an enduring literary mystery, bringing the spirit of Shakespeare alive as we’ve...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Saved Student Editions Edward Bond David Davis Methuen Drama Described by Edward Bond as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties and reflects a time of social change. Its subject...

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Brecht on Theatre The Development of an Aesthetic Bertolt Brecht; Edited and Translated by John Willett Hill and Wang This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956,...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Caucasian Chalk Circle Modern Classics Bertolt Brecht; Translators: John Willett Ralph Manheim Tania Stern W. H. Auden Methuen Drama 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...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Threepenny Opera Modern Classics Bertolt Brecht; Translators John Willett and Ralph Manheim Methuen Drama 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...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Mother Courage and Her Children Modern Classics Bertolt Brecht; Translators: John Willett and Ralph Manheim Methuen Drama In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Modern Classics Bertolt Brecht; Translators: John Willett Ralph Manheim Methuen Drama In this savage and witty parable written in exile in 1941, Brecht recasts the rise of Hitler as a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's...

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The Good Person Of Szechwan

Modern Classics

Bertolt Brecht; Translators: John Willett and Ralph Manheim Methuen Drama

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 as a man in order to muster sufficient ruthlessness to survive.

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Brecht Collected Plays: 2

Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins

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Bertolt Brecht; Translators: John Willett W. H. Auden Ralph Manheim Gerhard Nellhaus Chester Kallman Methuen Drama

The translators include W H Auden and Chester Kallman, Ralph Manheim, Gerhard Nellhaus and John Willett. The translations are ideal for both study and performance. The volume is accompanied by a full introduction and notes by the series editor John Willett and includes Brecht's own notes and relevant texts as well as all the important textual variants.

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Brecht Collected Plays: 1

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

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Bertolt Brecht; Translators: John Willett Eva Geiser Jean Benedetti Ernest Borneman Richard Grunberger Michael Hamburger Gerhard Nellhaus Peter Tegel Methuen Drama

The translators are Jean Benedetti, Eva Geiser and Ernest Borneman, Richard Grünberger, Michael Hamburger, Gerhard Nellhaus, Peter Tegel and John Willett. The translations are ideal for both study and performance. The volume is accompanied by a full introduction and notes by the series editor John Willett and includes Brecht's own notes and relevant texts as well as all the important textual variants.

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Brecht Collected Plays: 6

Good Person of Szechwan; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Mr Puntila and his Man Matti

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Bertolt Brecht; Translated by John Willett Ralph Manheim Methuen Drama

The translations are ideal for both study and performance. The volume is accompanied by a full introduction and notes by the series editor John Willett and includes Brecht's own notes and relevant texts as well as all the important textual variants.

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Brecht Collected Plays: 7

Visions of Simone Machard; Schweyk in the Second World War; Caucasian Chalk Circle; Duchess of Malfi

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Bertolt Brecht; Translators: Hugh Rank Tania Stern W. H. Auden William Rowlinson John Willett Methuen Drama

The translations are ideal for both study and performance. The volume is accompanied by a full introduction and notes by the series editor John Willett and includes Brecht's own notes and relevant texts as well as all the important textual variants.

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Brecht Collected Plays: 5

Life of Galileo; Mother Courage and Her Children

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Bertolt Brecht; Translated by John Willett, Ralph Manheim Methuen Drama

The translations are ideal for both study and performance. The volume is accompanied by a full introduction and notes by the series editor John Willett and includes Brecht's own notes and relevant texts as well as all the important textual variants.

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Life Of Galileo Modern Classics Bertolt Brecht; Translators: John Willett and Ralph Manheim Methuen Drama 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...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Mother Courage and Her Children Modern Plays Bertolt Brecht; Translators: John Willett and Michael Hofmann Methuen Drama Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This translation by Michael Hofmann was published to coincide with the UK tour by English Touring Theatre in 2006.

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Caucasian Chalk Circle Modern Plays Bertolt Brecht; Translators: Tom Kuhn, Frank McGuinness Methuen Drama A morality masterpiece, The Caucasian Chalk Circle powerfully demonstrates Brecht's pioneering theatrical techniques. This version by Frank McGuinness was published to coincide with the National Theatre's production which toured the UK in 2007.

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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

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Bertolt Brecht; Translator: Steve Giles Methuen Drama

Translated and with commentary by Steve Giles, this critical edition is the first translation into English of the approved Versuche text of 1930/1.

An important addition to Brecht scholarship, this edition contains a full introduction to the play, Brecht's writing and notes on the work, editorial notes and variants, and a study of contemporary productions and responses.

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Mr Puntila and His Man Matti Modern Classics Bertolt Brecht; Translators: John Willett, Ralph Manheim Methuen Drama This translation by John Willett is accompanied by Brecht's own notes and relevant texts, as well as an extensive introduction and commentary by John Willett and Ralph Manheim, editor's of Brecht's collected plays in English.

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Good Soul of Szechuan Modern Plays Bertolt Brecht; Translator: David Harrower Methuen Drama A program text edition of Brecht's famous parable, this new translation by David Harrower was published to accompany the production at the Young Vic, London, in May 2008 and is based on a previously unpublished version of Brecht's play.

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Measures Taken and Other Lehrstucke Modern Plays Bertolt Brecht; Translators Carl R. Mueller Ralph Manheim Wolfgang Sauerlander Methuen Drama The Lehrstücke (or 'learning-plays') lie at the heart of Brechtian theatre. Written during 1929 and 1930, years of far-reaching political and economic...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Saint Joan of the Stockyards Modern Plays Bertolt Brecht; Translator: Ralph Manheim Methuen Drama In this version of the story of Joan of Arc, Brecht transforms her into 'Joan Dark', a member of the 'Black Straw Hats' (a Salvation Army-like group) in...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Mother Courage and Her Children Modern Plays Bertolt Brecht; Translator: David Hare Methuen Drama Considered by many to be one of the greatest anti-war plays ever written and Brecht's masterpiece, it remains a powerful example of Brecht's epic theatre and pioneering theatrical style.

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Mother Courage and Her Children

Modern Plays

Bertolt Brecht; Translator: Tony Kushner Methuen Drama

This translation by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner is contemporary and lively, with accessible and humour language, an easy conversational flow, sympathetic, understandable characters and humor. Kushner makes a classic play which is notoriously difficult to perform both stage and reader friendly. It was staged at the National Theatre directed by Deborah Warner and starring Fiona Shaw in September 2009.

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Caucasian Chalk Circle Modern Plays Bertolt Brecht; Translator: Alistair Beaton Methuen Drama This Caucasian Chalk Circle is translated by award-winning writer Alistair Beaton, who also wrote the bitingly witty stage play Feelgood and the celebrated TV dramas The Trial of Tony Blair and A Very Social Secretary.