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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... Song of my mother'. Brecht and Neher in financial difficulties. Preoccupied, Brecht fails to register for university course and is dropped from the university roll. Ends up in hospital suffering from malnutrition. New friendship with ...
... Song of my mother'. Brecht and Neher in financial difficulties. Preoccupied, Brecht fails to register for university course and is dropped from the university roll. Ends up in hospital suffering from malnutrition. New friendship with ...
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... songs for Helene Weigel. Attends International Writers' Conference in Paris: main theme, intellectuals' attitudes towards the Spanish Civil War. Brands self 'one of the cowards' for being too cautious to go to Madrid himself. In Paris ...
... songs for Helene Weigel. Attends International Writers' Conference in Paris: main theme, intellectuals' attitudes towards the Spanish Civil War. Brands self 'one of the cowards' for being too cautious to go to Madrid himself. In Paris ...
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... 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 be relied on and resolves that Shen Teh must marry Shu Fu after all. When Wang ...
... 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 be relied on and resolves that Shen Teh must marry Shu Fu after all. When Wang ...
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... songs and poems. Both the rebellion and the experimental approach were to remain central aspects of his career. Brecht's early literature is sometimes characterised as nihilistic, and certainly it seems to embrace a sort of chaotic ...
... songs and poems. Both the rebellion and the experimental approach were to remain central aspects of his career. Brecht's early literature is sometimes characterised as nihilistic, and certainly it seems to embrace a sort of chaotic ...
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... songs sung out of character as commentary on the action, the frequent changes of tone and switches of level, the theatrewithinthetheatre (Shen Teh's role switching, e.g.), the selfconscious insistence that we are, indeed, in a theatre ...
... songs sung out of character as commentary on the action, the frequent changes of tone and switches of level, the theatrewithinthetheatre (Shen Teh's role switching, e.g.), the selfconscious insistence that we are, indeed, in a theatre ...
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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