Browse by category
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Education
Written in exile during the Second World War, the story 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, Azda ...Show more
The Cold Gaze: Germany in The 1920s by Laerke Rydal Jorgensen (Editor); Christopher Isherwood (Text by); Irmgard Keun (Text by); Angela Lampe (Text by); Anthony Lane (Text by); Herbert Molderings (Text by); Werner Möller (Text by); Patrick Rössler (Text by); Catherine Wermester (Text by); Kirsten Degel (Editor); Poul Erik Tøjner (Foreword by); Vicki Baum (Text by); Bertolt Brecht (Text by); Alfred Döblin (Text by); Hans Fallada (Text by); Marieluise Fleisser (Text by)
Category: Art
A sweeping journey through the roaring art and culture of the Weimar Republic At the center of this volume are the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) artists--Otto Dix, George Grosz and Albert Renger-Patzsch--and the groundbreaking photographer August Sander, in particular his famed series People of t ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht by Bertolt Brecht; David Constantine (Translator); Tom Kuhn (Translator)
Category: Gift
A landmark literary event, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht is the most extensive English translation of Brecht's poetry to date. Widely celebrated as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht was also, as George Steiner observed, "that very rare phenomenon, a great p ...Show more
The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays by Bertolt Brecht; Eric Bentley (Translator)
Category: Classics
These six plays represent the best and most humorous of Brecht's shorter works. The Jewish Wife is from the Fear and Misery in the Third Reich cycle of one-act plays, which, along with In Search of Justice and The Informer, chromicles the hardships of life in Nazi Germany. The Exception and the Rule, on ...Show more
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Classics
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 greengrocery trade. This prizewinning translation by Ralph Manheim skilfully captures the wide range of parody and pastiche in the original - from Richar ...Show more
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Plays
Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', The Resistible Rise of 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 parod ...Show more
The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Education
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 amo ...Show more