The Good Person Of SzechwanBloomsbury Publishing, 17.11.2016 - 224 Seiten 'Brecht's dark, dazzling world-view...makes an absolutely devastating impact. The play is fuelled by the brilliant perception that everyone requires such a dual or split personality to survive.' Evening Standard Three gods come to earth hoping to discover one really good person. No one can be found until they meet Shen Te, a prostitute with a heart of gold. Rewarded by the gods, she gives up her profession and buys a tabacco shop but finds it is impossible to survive as a good person in a corrupt world without the support of her ruthless alter ego Shui Ta. Brecht's parable of good and evil was first performed in 1943 and remains one of his most popular and frequently produced plays worldwide. This Student Edition 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. |
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... thing to die for one's country ' . 1917 Enrols as medical student at Munich University . Also attends Arthur Kutscher's theatre seminar . Samples bohemian literary life of the city . 1918 Conscripted into the army and serves as a ...
... thing to die for one's country ' . 1917 Enrols as medical student at Munich University . Also attends Arthur Kutscher's theatre seminar . Samples bohemian literary life of the city . 1918 Conscripted into the army and serves as a ...
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... 1940 German forces march into Denmark and Norway . Moves with family to Helsinki , expressing gratitude for help and friendship he found in Stockholm : It's a big thing to find so much intellectual solidarity X The Good Person of Szechwan.
... 1940 German forces march into Denmark and Norway . Moves with family to Helsinki , expressing gratitude for help and friendship he found in Stockholm : It's a big thing to find so much intellectual solidarity X The Good Person of Szechwan.
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Bertolt Brecht. It's a big thing to find so much intellectual solidarity even ( and especially ) in these dark times ... I had the feeling that I was leaving my home . ( Letter to Henry Peter Matthis , Letters 1913-1956 , p . 323 ) ...
Bertolt Brecht. It's a big thing to find so much intellectual solidarity even ( and especially ) in these dark times ... I had the feeling that I was leaving my home . ( Letter to Henry Peter Matthis , Letters 1913-1956 , p . 323 ) ...
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... things out . Interlude Shen Teh sings the ' Song of the Defencelessness of the Good and the Gods ' as she changes into Shui Ta's outfit and dons his mask . Scene 5 Shui Ta discovers that Sun is not to xvi The Good Person of Szechwan.
... things out . Interlude Shen Teh sings the ' Song of the Defencelessness of the Good and the Gods ' as she changes into Shui Ta's outfit and dons his mask . Scene 5 Shui Ta discovers that Sun is not to xvi The Good Person of Szechwan.
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... thing that Marx , and Brecht for that matter , teach us , it is that history is always also about the present : it provides us with a fund of analogies by which to understand our own world , it shows us where that world has come from ...
... thing that Marx , and Brecht for that matter , teach us , it is that history is always also about the present : it provides us with a fund of analogies by which to understand our own world , it shows us where that world has come from ...
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Further Reading | lxxiii |
THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN | 1 |
Notes | 111 |
Questions for Further Study | 128 |
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200 silver dollars action actors airman audience back room barber Berliner Ensemble Bertolt Brecht bourgeois Brecht Collected Plays Brecht on Theatre CARPENTER Caspar Neher Caucasian Chalk Circle character Chinese cousin critical door dramatic Elisabeth Hauptmann epic theatre factory flying Fu's German give hand Hanns Eisler Helene Weigel idea Illustrious Interlude Kurt Weill live look Mahagonny Margarete Steffin mean Methuen Drama MI TZU Miss Shen Teh moral Mother Courage Neher NEPHEW old couple OLD WOMAN parable Pekin performance perhaps Person of Szechwan poems POLICEMAN political premiere production prostitute rain realise rent rice role sacks scene SHIN Shu Fu SHUI TA Shui Ta's SISTER-IN-LAW social songs sort stage Teh's tell there's things Threepenny Opera tobacco tobacconist's told unemployed Verfremdung wait WANG Wang's water-seller wedding What's writing young Zurich