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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... production throughout the world except USA should be directed to Alan Brodie Representation Ltd , Paddock Suite , The Courtyard , 55 Charterhouse Street , London EC1M 6HA and for amateur stage production to Samuel French Ltd , 52 ...
... production throughout the world except USA should be directed to Alan Brodie Representation Ltd , Paddock Suite , The Courtyard , 55 Charterhouse Street , London EC1M 6HA and for amateur stage production to Samuel French Ltd , 52 ...
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... production IIS 117 118 119 121 125 126 127 Epilogue of the scientists 127 Notes on individual scenes 128 Building up a part : Laughton's Galileo 131 Note of two conversations with Caspar Neher about Life of Galileo 161 Editorial Notes 1 ...
... production IIS 117 118 119 121 125 126 127 Epilogue of the scientists 127 Notes on individual scenes 128 Building up a part : Laughton's Galileo 131 Note of two conversations with Caspar Neher about Life of Galileo 161 Editorial Notes 1 ...
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... years after that of Mother Courage . How he reacted to the news of the production - or when , indeed , he heard it – remains unclear ; he never even alludes to it in - his diary . Soberly interpreted by Leonard Steckel , who Introduction ...
... years after that of Mother Courage . How he reacted to the news of the production - or when , indeed , he heard it – remains unclear ; he never even alludes to it in - his diary . Soberly interpreted by Leonard Steckel , who Introduction ...
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... production with Jed Harris , the backer of Thornton Wilder's Our Town , and on getting back to Santa Monica he looked at Galileo with a fresh eye , re - checking its moral content , so he noted in his diary , since it had always worried ...
... production with Jed Harris , the backer of Thornton Wilder's Our Town , and on getting back to Santa Monica he looked at Galileo with a fresh eye , re - checking its moral content , so he noted in his diary , since it had always worried ...
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... productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream ... Laughton had last acted in the theatre in 1934 , and since playing Rembrandt in Alexander Korda's 1936 film of that name ( for which Brecht's old friend Carl Zuckmayer wrote the script ) he ...
... productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream ... Laughton had last acted in the theatre in 1934 , and since playing Rembrandt in Alexander Korda's 1936 film of that name ( for which Brecht's old friend Carl Zuckmayer wrote the script ) he ...
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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