Life Of GalileoBloomsbury Publishing, 13.02.2015 - 192 Seiten This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature 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 John Willett. |
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... Church forces him to drop his research on the solar system . He resumes it to popular acclaim when a mathematician becomes Pope , but the Inquisition forces him to disown the theory that the earth revolves round the sun . Under virtual ...
... Church forces him to drop his research on the solar system . He resumes it to popular acclaim when a mathematician becomes Pope , but the Inquisition forces him to disown the theory that the earth revolves round the sun . Under virtual ...
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... church's greatest astrono- mer , Christopher Clavius , is taking Galileo's hypotheses seriously . There is general agreement that the new science degrades the earth and debases humanity . Galileo , isolated on one side , drops his ...
... church's greatest astrono- mer , Christopher Clavius , is taking Galileo's hypotheses seriously . There is general agreement that the new science degrades the earth and debases humanity . Galileo , isolated on one side , drops his ...
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... Church is protecting them from the new doctrines out of sheer goodness . Galileo expostulates that the reason for the monk's parents ' poverty is that they are paying for the Church's wars . Otherwise they could live in plenty and ...
... Church is protecting them from the new doctrines out of sheer goodness . Galileo expostulates that the reason for the monk's parents ' poverty is that they are paying for the Church's wars . Otherwise they could live in plenty and ...
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... church doctrine and leaves . Galileo turns to his telescope to see whether sunspots will support his hypothesis that the sun rotates . Virginia returns in her wedding dress and faints when she sees Ludovico has gone . Galileo pursues ...
... church doctrine and leaves . Galileo turns to his telescope to see whether sunspots will support his hypothesis that the sun rotates . Virginia returns in her wedding dress and faints when she sees Ludovico has gone . Galileo pursues ...
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... church faces a crisis . Germany has been ravaged by religious wars for fifteen years and the movement generated by ... church's conditions with his last book he nonetheless put Aristotle's ( and the Church's ) case in the mouth of a fool ...
... church faces a crisis . Germany has been ravaged by religious wars for fifteen years and the movement generated by ... church's conditions with his last book he nonetheless put Aristotle's ( and the Church's ) case in the mouth of a fool ...
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ANDREA Aristotle astronomer audience Barberini believe Bellarmin Berliner Ensemble Bertolt Brecht Bible Brecht Collected Plays Cardinal Inquisitor carnival Caspar Neher Caucasian Chalk Circle centre CHAMBERLAIN Christopher Clavius Church Clavius Collegium Romanum Copernicus COSIMO crystal spheres Discorsi doctrine earth epic theatre eyes faith Father FEDERZONI Florence Florentine FRONTIER GUARD Galileo Galilei GALILEO laughing gentlemen Germany Giordano Bruno give goes Grand Duke hands heaven heretical Holy human Inquisition Inquisitor Jupiter Laughton LITTLE MONK look Ludovico Marsili MATHEMATICIAN moon Mother Courage moves MUCIUS night OLD CARDINAL OLD WOMAN Padua Pause peasants PHILOSOPHER plague planets Pope PROCURATOR Ptolemaic system pupils reading reason recantation Rome round the sun SAGREDO Sarti scene 14 scene 9 scholars scientific scientist scudi sitting social stand star charts sunspots telescope tell there's thing truth tube turns universe Vanni Venice VIRGINIA What's writing