{"product_id":"brecht-collected-plays-bertolt-brecht-9780413685704","title":"Brecht Collected Plays: One","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVolume One of Brecht's Collected Plays contains Brecht's first performed stage works. \u003ci\u003eBaal\u003c\/i\u003e is inspired by Brecht's student life in Augsburg and follows the life of a young poet on the rocky road to inspiration; \u003ci\u003eDrums in the Night\u003c\/i\u003e was written in response to Brecht's experience as a medical orderly in the aftermath of the First World War; and \u003ci\u003eIn the Jungle of Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, set in Chicago, covers the downfall of a family that has moved from the prairies to the jungle of the big city - award-winning in its day, it was described by a leading German daily as the play that 'has given our time a new tone, a new melody, a new vision'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume also includes \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Edward II of England\u003c\/i\u003e, a ballad-like adaptation of Marlowe's original, and five one-act plays \u003ci\u003eThe Beggar or the Dead Dog\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDriving Out The Devil\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLux in Tenebris\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Catch \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Respectable Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e in which the bourgeois proceedings take a hilarious turn for the unseemly. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe translators are Jean Benedetti, Eva Geiser and Ernest Borneman, Richard Gr?berger, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bertolt Brecht\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0413685705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780413685704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.20d","brand":"Bertolt Brecht","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992980390143,"sku":"9780413685704","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c59e8500-9214-4ac8-ac64-8d0e54e0fffe.jpg?v=1683321866","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brecht-collected-plays-bertolt-brecht-9780413685704","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}