Product details
ISBN
9781408100707
Published
2007-09-27
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Methuen Drama
Weight
174 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
10 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
176
Author
Translated by
Biographical note
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose work has had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include Mother Courage and Her Children, The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Written in 1940 during Brecht's exile in Finland, Puntila is one of his greatest creations - to be ranked alongside Galileo and Mother Courage. A hard-drinking Finnish landowner, Puntila suffers from a divided personality: when drunk he is human and humane; when sober, surly and self-centred. The play contains some of the best comedy Brecht wrote for the theatre. 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.
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A new paperback edition of what is arguably Brecht's finest comedy, featuring an extensive introduction and commentary and Brecht's own notes.
A new paperback edition of Brecht's finest comedy. Translated by John Willett and with an extensive introduction and commentary. Features Brecht's own notes and relevant texts. Brecht is one of the most important dramatists of the twentieth century whose work is studied on every Theatre Studies course.
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A new paperback edition of Brecht's finest comedy.
Methuen Drama’s Modern Classics series showcases landmark plays from around the world. Drawing on the Modern Plays series, which launched in 1959, Modern Classics celebrates plays from the contemporary repertoire by world-leading dramatists and presents their work in a definitive edition, alongside new introductions by leading scholars and industry professionals. With writers such as Pulitzer Prize-winners Jackie Sibblies Drury, Ayad Akhtar and David Mamet through to Lucy Prebble, Katori Hall and Caryl Churchill, Modern Classics are ideal for students and anyone wanting to deepen their knowledge of the plays that form part of the modern dramatic canon.
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Product details
ISBN
9781408100707
Published
2007-09-27
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Methuen Drama
Weight
174 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
10 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
176
Author
Translated by