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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... scenes Building up a part: Laughton's Galileo Note of two conversations with Caspar Neher about Life of Galileo Editorial Notes 1. General 2. The first version, 1938–1943 3. The American version, 19441947 4. The Berlin version, 19531956 ...
... scenes Building up a part: Laughton's Galileo Note of two conversations with Caspar Neher about Life of Galileo Editorial Notes 1. General 2. The first version, 1938–1943 3. The American version, 19441947 4. The Berlin version, 19531956 ...
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... scenes known variously as 99%, The Private Life of the Master Race and Fear and Misery of the Third Reich. Short satirical poems designed for the exiles' cabarets or for broadcasting (notably by the Communistrun German Freedom Radio) ...
... scenes known variously as 99%, The Private Life of the Master Race and Fear and Misery of the Third Reich. Short satirical poems designed for the exiles' cabarets or for broadcasting (notably by the Communistrun German Freedom Radio) ...
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... scene even before Andrea appears. (In Zurich this was in fact the last scene, that at the frontier being, as usual, cut.) It was only in the spring of 1944 that the play seems once more to have become a reality to Brecht. Wintering in ...
... scene even before Andrea appears. (In Zurich this was in fact the last scene, that at the frontier being, as usual, cut.) It was only in the spring of 1944 that the play seems once more to have become a reality to Brecht. Wintering in ...
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... scene 2, the argument between Ludovico and Galileo in the sunspot scene and the shifting of the handingover of the Discorsi so that Galileo's great speech of selfabasement should come after it and offset it. Brecht too worked to make ...
... scene 2, the argument between Ludovico and Galileo in the sunspot scene and the shifting of the handingover of the Discorsi so that Galileo's great speech of selfabasement should come after it and offset it. Brecht too worked to make ...
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... scene. The notion of a Hippocratic oath for scientists had still to be worked in. So before leaving the U.S. Brecht drafted the relevant passage, which could indeed have been in his mind from the inception of the play, the idea itself ...
... scene. The notion of a Hippocratic oath for scientists had still to be worked in. So before leaving the U.S. Brecht drafted the relevant passage, which could indeed have been in his mind from the inception of the play, the idea itself ...
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actor ANDREA Aristotle astronomer BALLAD SINGER Barberini believe BELLARMIN Berliner Ensemble Bertolt Brecht Bible Brecht can’t Cardinal Inquisitor CHAMBERLAIN Charles Laughton Christopher Clavius church Clavius Collegium Romanum comes COSIMO course court CURATOR daughter Discorsi doubt earth everything eyes FAT PRELATE father FEDERZONI final text Florence FRONTIER GUARD Galileo Galilei GALILEO Yes gentlemen give goes hands heard 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 playwright Pope Priuli PROCURATOR production Ptolemaic system pupils reason recantation Rome round SAGREDO Sarti scene scholar scientific scientists scudi secretaries Senators sits speech stand sunspots telescope tell theatre there’s thing truth tube turns typescript VANNI VIRGINIA What’s you’re