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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... social responsibility of the scientist. First performance of Brecht's adaptation of Webster's The Duchess of Malfi in Boston. Charles Laughton appears in the title role of Galileo in Beverly Hills and New York. Brecht appears before the ...
... social responsibility of the scientist. First performance of Brecht's adaptation of Webster's The Duchess of Malfi in Boston. Charles Laughton appears in the title role of Galileo in Beverly Hills and New York. Brecht appears before the ...
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... social conflict which chimed in with his own. He was to develop a close engagement with some of his more unorthodox Marxist contemporaries, most notably with the critic, commentator and philosopher Walter Benjamin, who became a good ...
... social conflict which chimed in with his own. He was to develop a close engagement with some of his more unorthodox Marxist contemporaries, most notably with the critic, commentator and philosopher Walter Benjamin, who became a good ...
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... social injustice and, tentatively, to propose alternative ways of organising social and economic life. His concept of the theatre too, above all at the time of the composition of the Lehrstücke (learning plays) around 1930, was driven ...
... social injustice and, tentatively, to propose alternative ways of organising social and economic life. His concept of the theatre too, above all at the time of the composition of the Lehrstücke (learning plays) around 1930, was driven ...
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... social conditions, and we witness Shen Teh's decision to turn herself once more into Shui Ta. Besides, the scene is followed by a more abstract discussion between Wang and the gods about the difficulties of being good. Brecht first ...
... social conditions, and we witness Shen Teh's decision to turn herself once more into Shui Ta. Besides, the scene is followed by a more abstract discussion between Wang and the gods about the difficulties of being good. Brecht first ...
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... social being determines thought Perhaps the most important thing about this table is a note that Brecht added insisting that it showed only 'shifts of accent' and not 'absolute antitheses'. In later years he was often to modify and ...
... social being determines thought Perhaps the most important thing about this table is a note that Brecht added insisting that it showed only 'shifts of accent' and not 'absolute antitheses'. In later years he was often to modify and ...
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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 can’t CARPENTER Caspar Neher Caucasian Chalk Circle character Chinese cousin critical door dramatic Elisabeth Hauptmann epic theatre factory flying Fu’s German give gods hand Hanns Eisler Helene Weigel Illustrious Interlude Kurt Weill live look Margarete Steffin mean Methuen Drama Miss Shen Teh MITZU moral Mother Courage Neher NEPHEW old couple OLD WOMAN one’s parable Pekin performance perhaps Person of Szechwan poems POLICEMAN political premiere production prostitute rain realise rent role sacks scene SHIN Shu Fu Shui Ta’s SHUITA SISTERINLAW social songs sort stage Steve Giles Sun’s Teh’s tell there’s things Threepenny Opera tobacco tobacconist’s told Tom Kuhn unemployed Verfremdung wait WANG Wang’s waterseller wedding What’s writing