{"product_id":"heiner-maller-after-shakespeare-william-shakespeare-9781555541521","title":"Heiner M?ler After Shakespeare: Macbeth and Anatomy of Titus - Fall of Rome","description":"\u003ci\u003eHeiner M?ler After Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e makes available for the first time \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnatomy Titus Fall of Rome\u003c\/i\u003e, the last of the Shakespeare-inspired plays of the renowned German author to be translated into English. His reflections on the importance of his chosen dramatic model are highlighted in the text of his address \u003ci\u003eShakespeare A Difference\u003c\/i\u003e, also included in the volume. M?ler (1929-1995), whose \u003ci\u003eHamletmachine\u003c\/i\u003e is a contemporary classic, is regarded as one of the most profound visionaries of twentieth-century drama and at the time of his death was one of Europe's leading intellectual figures. His Shakespeare plays are startling in their imagery and poetry and uncompromising depiction of the violence of power and politics. Truly, they are plays for our age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince first introducing his work to the English-speaking world in 1983 with \u003ci\u003eHamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage\u003c\/i\u003e, PAJ Publications has also published several other volumes by the author: \u003ci\u003eExplosion of a Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Battle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Heiner M?ler Reader\u003c\/i\u003e. They include his dramatic works as well as poems, speeches, and interviews. \u003ci\u003eHamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage\u003c\/i\u003e is one of PAJ's best-selling titles, with over 10,000 volumes in print. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume is translated by Carl Weber and Paul David Young. Weber has edited and translated all the M?ler volumes, as well as plays by Kleist, Handke, and Kroetz. Also a director, he is professor emeritus at Stanford University. Young is the recipient of the Kennedy Center's Paul Vogel Playwriting Award. He is currently working on a film version of his play \u003ci\u003eIn the Summer Pavilion\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Heiner M?ler was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and will undoubtedly be among the most indispensable of the 21st, the terrors of which his plays seem to have anticipated and anatomized. As Shakespeare's dramatic poems emerged from an historical moment of a great linguistic and cultural synthesis, M?ler's gorgeous, mind-bending and altering upgrades of Shakespeare mark our present crisis-moment of linguistic and cultural discombobulation, if not disintegration.\" - Tony Kushner, playwright \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Heiner M?ler's unmistakable voice--ferocious and brilliant, brutal and profoun -- burns through in pitch-perfect translations. \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnatomy Titus Fall of Rome\u003c\/i\u003e are the perfect Shakespearean vehicles for M?ler's vision of the bloody twentieth century. These plays are not just great theatre--and they are great theatre--they are indispensable documents of European culture.\" - Oskar Eustis, artistic director, The Public Theater \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Heiner M?ler's plays, astonishing in their punch and poetry, are imbued with muscularity, richness and theatricality. His influence on the field is palpable and PAJ's publications of brilliant translations will help to ensure that M?ler's wide-open vision of the theatre will proliferate. We urgently need his combination of the political, personal and aesthetic in our current culture.\" - Anne Bogart, artistic director, Siti Company \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A new volume of Heiner M?ler's coruscating, deeply damaged performance prose\/ poetry arrives just in time for further chapters of the continued degradation and decline of the West. His theatre pieces take on galling new dimensions as democracies all over the world are in crisis and citizens of Arab countries pour into the streets to demand self-determination.... Heiner M?ler was a connoisseur of tyranny. The violence and the decay are already in the language, and thus his rendezvous with Shakespeare.... After the fire, there is space for new growth in an old forest.\" - Peter Sellars, director\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555541526\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555541521\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PAJ Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"William Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980084838655,"sku":"9781555541521","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_080d3a55-f558-41cd-82c8-ac00dbd56001.jpg?v=1683248299","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/heiner-maller-after-shakespeare-william-shakespeare-9781555541521","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}