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Mother Courage and Her Children de Bertolt Brecht

Mother Courage and Her Children

Autor Bertolt Brecht Traducere de Tom Leonard
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 feb 2014
In this new translation of Brecht's great 1939 anti-war play 'Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder' by the distinguished Scottish poet Tom Leonard, the Thirty Years War becomes the War on Terror and Mother Courage is a working-class woman from the West of Scotland speaking in the broad, bold Glaswegian dialect. It is a play about the language of politics and the politics of language.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780957574762
ISBN-10: 0957574762
Pagini: 120
Dimensiuni: 127 x 196 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Smokestack Books

Notă biografică

Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg on 10 February 1898 and died in Berlin on 14 August 1956. His plays include Man Equals Man, The Threepenny Opera, The Mother, Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. He founded the Berliner Ensemble in 1947 and, from then until his death, was mainly occupied in producing his own plays.John Willett (1917-2002) was a British translator and scholar who is remembered for translating the work of Bertolt Brecht into English, having become a friend of Brecht's after World War II. Over his career, he acted as a freelancer writer, editor, translator and director, as well as a visiting professor and lecturer.A poet, historian, and Brecht scholar, Katherine Hollander holds an MA in poetry and a PhD in modern European history, both from Boston University. Her scholarly work focuses on exile and collaboration in intellectual circles. Her first book of poems, My German Dictionary, won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize in 2019. She serves as Poetry and Reviews Editor for Consequence Forum and as an Associate Editor for the Waywiser Press, and teaches poetry at Tufts University.

Caracteristici

Includes recent production history, including discussion of significant actresses who have portrayed Mother Courage, including Therese Giehse, Olympia Dukakis, Whoopi Goldberg, Fiona Shaw and Meryl Streep, and significant productions, including Tony Kushner's Public Theatre version.

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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 bilingual edition allows students to compare the original German text with a translation by one of the world's leading playwrights, Tony Kushner.

Cuprins

ChronologyContexts (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)Production History and Critical ReceptionAcademic Debate (Marxist, feminist and postmodernist)Further StudyMOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN

Recenzii

'Tony Kushner's sparky new translation'
'Tony Kushner's bouncy new translation of Brecht's greatest play'
'The translation, by American playwright Tony Kushner, is fast-moving, articulate, and reaches the heart of Brecht's reasonings'
'Tony Kushner's wry, witty translation'
'Tony Kushner's translation is zesty'