Life Of GalileoBloomsbury Publishing, 13.03.2015 - 288 Seiten Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht's greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo's heretical discoveries about the solar system bring him to the attention of the Inquisition. He is scared into publicly abjuring his theories but, despite his self-contempt, goes on working in private, eventually helping to smuggle his writings out of the country. As an examination of the problems that face not only the scientist but also the whole spirit of free inquiry when brought into conflict with the requirements of government or official ideology, Life of Galileo has few equals. Written in exile in 1937-9 and first performed in Zurich in 1943, Galileo was first staged in English in 1947 by Joseph Losey in a version jointly prepared by Brecht and Charles Laughton, who played the title role. Printed here is the complete translation by Brecht scholar John Willett. The much shorter Laughton version is also included in full as an appendix, along with Brecht's own copious notes on the play making this the most trusted scholarly edition of the text. |
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... give way to something at once more personal and more pessimistic . The Lenin Cantata set by Eisler for the twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution is followed during 1938 by ' To Those Born Later ' and the great Lao - Tse poem ...
... give way to something at once more personal and more pessimistic . The Lenin Cantata set by Eisler for the twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution is followed during 1938 by ' To Those Born Later ' and the great Lao - Tse poem ...
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... gives in ' Building up a part ' ( p . 131 ff . ) seems to have been filtered through a warm Californian haze rather than the wintry greys of Berlin . Inevitably there were long interruptions before a first script was ready . From ...
... gives in ' Building up a part ' ( p . 131 ff . ) seems to have been filtered through a warm Californian haze rather than the wintry greys of Berlin . Inevitably there were long interruptions before a first script was ready . From ...
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... give us the text as we now print it ( see the appendix , p . 201 ) , the odd facetious line was worked in ; the cast was entirely new . Again however the reviews were bad , Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times dismissing the production ...
... give us the text as we now print it ( see the appendix , p . 201 ) , the odd facetious line was worked in ; the cast was entirely new . Again however the reviews were bad , Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times dismissing the production ...
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... give more emphasis to the relationship between Virginia and her fiancé Ludovico . However , everything was conditional on Laughton's involvement , and he blew hot and cold , his own nervousness of Communist associations being no doubt ...
... give more emphasis to the relationship between Virginia and her fiancé Ludovico . However , everything was conditional on Laughton's involvement , and he blew hot and cold , his own nervousness of Communist associations being no doubt ...
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... give it its multiple relevance to our time : Hitler's triumphs in 1938 , the dropping of the first nuclear bomb in 1945 , the death of Stalin in 1953. Each found Brecht writing or rewriting his play . And on each occasion the conditions ...
... give it its multiple relevance to our time : Hitler's triumphs in 1938 , the dropping of the first nuclear bomb in 1945 , the death of Stalin in 1953. Each found Brecht writing or rewriting his play . And on each occasion the conditions ...
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actor ANDREA Aristotle astronomer BALLAD SINGER Barberini believe BELLARMIN Berliner Ensemble Bertolt Brecht Bible Brecht Cardinal Inquisitor Caspar Neher CHAMBERLAIN Charles Laughton Christopher Clavius church Clavius Collegium Romanum comes COSIMO course court CURATOR daughter Discorsi door doubt earth everything eyes FAT PRELATE father FEDERZONI final text Florence FRONTIER GUARD Galileo Galilei gentlemen give goes hands Holy human Inquisition Jupiter ladies laugh Laughton lenses LITTLE MONK look LORD CHAMBERLAIN Ludovico Marsili MATHEMATICIAN milk moon mother move never OFFICIAL OLD CARDINAL once Padua Pause peasants PHILOSOPHER physicist play Pope Prince Priuli PROCURATOR production Ptolemaic system pupils reason recantation Rome round SAGREDO Sarti scene scholar scientific scientist scudi secretaries sits speech stand sunspots telescope tell theatre there's thing truth tube turns typescript understand universe VANNI VIRGINIA Werner Hecht What's