{"product_id":"9780413773524","title":"Brecht Plays 8 : The Antigone of Sophocles; The Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBrecht Plays 8\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Bertolt Brecht\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume 8 of Brecht's collected plays contains his last completed plays, from the eight years between his return from America to Europe after the war and his death in 1956. Brecht's ANTIGONE (1948) is a bold adaptation of Holderlin's classic German translation of Sophocles' play. A reflection on resistance and dictatorship in the aftermath of Nazism, it was a radical new experiment in epic theatre. THE DAYS OF THE COMMUNE (1949) is a semi-documentary account of the Paris Commune, and Brecht's most serious and ambitious historical play. TURANDOT is Brecht's version of the classic Chinese story is a satire on the intelligentsia of the Weimar Republic, Nazi bureaucracy, and other targets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780413773524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40597359624398,"sku":"9780413773524","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780413773524","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}