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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... stage he was pretty determined not to commit himself to anything whatsoever. Yet this was the play for which Brecht won the coveted Kleist Prize in 1922, and which signalled a breakthrough to nationwide recognition. Moving to Berlin ...
... stage he was pretty determined not to commit himself to anything whatsoever. Yet this was the play for which Brecht won the coveted Kleist Prize in 1922, and which signalled a breakthrough to nationwide recognition. Moving to Berlin ...
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... stage (again designed by Neher, who had stayed in Germany) and published his fullest statement of theatre theory, the Short Organum on the Theatre. After some negotiation, he and Helene Weigel were offered the opportunity to run their ...
... stage (again designed by Neher, who had stayed in Germany) and published his fullest statement of theatre theory, the Short Organum on the Theatre. After some negotiation, he and Helene Weigel were offered the opportunity to run their ...
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... stage and auditorium. Brecht was consistently opposed to 'illusionism' and mostly scathing about the achievements of the Naturalists, even though they provided one of the obvious models of a socially engaged theatre. The second was ...
... stage and auditorium. Brecht was consistently opposed to 'illusionism' and mostly scathing about the achievements of the Naturalists, even though they provided one of the obvious models of a socially engaged theatre. The second was ...
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Bertolt Brecht. Dramatic theatre Epic theatre plot narrative implicates the spectator in a stage situation turns the spectator into an observer but wears down the capacity for action arouses his capacity for action provides him with ...
Bertolt Brecht. Dramatic theatre Epic theatre plot narrative implicates the spectator in a stage situation turns the spectator into an observer but wears down the capacity for action arouses his capacity for action provides him with ...
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... stage as revelatory in that social sense. For example, when Shui Ta offers the policeman a cigar and he takes two and puts them in his pocket for later (p. 29), we see, not merely that Shui Ta is seeking a reassuring complicity with the ...
... stage as revelatory in that social sense. For example, when Shui Ta offers the policeman a cigar and he takes two and puts them in his pocket for later (p. 29), we see, not merely that Shui Ta is seeking a reassuring complicity with the ...
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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