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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... look nostalgically backwards , as the end of the Foreword suggests : Is that why I occupy myself with that epoch of the flowering of the arts and sciences three hundred years ago ? I hope not . And in this hope he was determined to hold ...
... look nostalgically backwards , as the end of the Foreword suggests : Is that why I occupy myself with that epoch of the flowering of the arts and sciences three hundred years ago ? I hope not . And in this hope he was determined to hold ...
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... look like a blood- stained old harridan , but if so that must be the way new ages look . ' - In the American version , which omits the reference to Reason , Andrea asks Galileo outright if he doesn't now think that his ' new age ' was ...
... look like a blood- stained old harridan , but if so that must be the way new ages look . ' - In the American version , which omits the reference to Reason , Andrea asks Galileo outright if he doesn't now think that his ' new age ' was ...
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... Look behind the star charts . Andrea rummages behind the star charts and brings out a big wooden model of the Ptolemaic system . ANDREA : What is it ? GALILEO : That's an armillary sphere . It's a contraption to show how the planets ...
... Look behind the star charts . Andrea rummages behind the star charts and brings out a big wooden model of the Ptolemaic system . ANDREA : What is it ? GALILEO : That's an armillary sphere . It's a contraption to show how the planets ...
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... look for ourselves . That most solemn truths are being familiarly nudged ; what was never doubted before is doubted now . This has created a draught which is blowing up the gold- embroidered skirts of the prelates and princes ...
... look for ourselves . That most solemn truths are being familiarly nudged ; what was never doubted before is doubted now . This has created a draught which is blowing up the gold- embroidered skirts of the prelates and princes ...
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... Look , I proved to you ... ANDREA : But last night I realised that if the earth turned that way I'd be hanging head downwards every night , and that's a fact . GALILEO takes an apple from the table : Right , now this is the earth ...
... Look , I proved to you ... ANDREA : But last night I realised that if the earth turned that way I'd be hanging head downwards every night , and that's a fact . GALILEO takes an apple from the table : Right , now this is the earth ...
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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