Life Of GalileoBloomsbury Publishing, 23.04.2015 - 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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... actor had evidently learnt enough about Galileo, whether through Brecht's description or from the Vesey and Reyher translations, to decide that it might well be the masterpiece to carry him back to the live stage. With Brecht's ...
... actor had evidently learnt enough about Galileo, whether through Brecht's description or from the Vesey and Reyher translations, to decide that it might well be the masterpiece to carry him back to the live stage. With Brecht's ...
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... actor and playwright together were getting down to what the former terms 'systematic work on the translation and stage version of the Life of the Physicist Galileo'. Whatever the original intention, it was in effect to be a new play ...
... actor and playwright together were getting down to what the former terms 'systematic work on the translation and stage version of the Life of the Physicist Galileo'. Whatever the original intention, it was in effect to be a new play ...
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... actors; he can get a crowd sense without numbers, and movement that isn't just confusion, and keep the whole of a play in mind. – but worked so closely with Brecht that the latter ever afterwards treated the production as his own ...
... actors; he can get a crowd sense without numbers, and movement that isn't just confusion, and keep the whole of a play in mind. – but worked so closely with Brecht that the latter ever afterwards treated the production as his own ...
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... actor's courage and the writer's relentless perfectionism: one of the great events in Brecht's life. * * * In the long struggle to stage the 'American' version it might seem that Brecht hardly noticed that the Second World War was over ...
... actor's courage and the writer's relentless perfectionism: one of the great events in Brecht's life. * * * In the long struggle to stage the 'American' version it might seem that Brecht hardly noticed that the Second World War was over ...
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... actors in the cast turned out to be Communists too ... Whether or not this put Laughton himself off the play, as Singer suggests, Brecht continued to count on the actor's collaboration in a proposed film version to be made in Italy. The ...
... actors in the cast turned out to be Communists too ... Whether or not this put Laughton himself off the play, as Singer suggests, Brecht continued to count on the actor's collaboration in a proposed film version to be made in Italy. The ...
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