Baal
BAAL, which renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote
when he was in college, is the provocative story of a drunken, ruthless, womanizing poet
and singer, a desperate antihero in the tradition of Villon and Rimbaud. The New York
Times called the first American production "strong stuff, both horrible and
fascinating".
Paperback - 96 pages (August 1998)
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Baal - A Man's a Man and the Elephant Calf- Early Plays
Paperback (May 1994)
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Bertolt
Brecht - Journals 1934-1955
Paperback - 574
pages (January 1996)
Hardcover
(January 1994)
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Bertolt Brecht;
Poems 1913-1956
Paperback - 564 pages (March 1998)
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Brecht Collected Plays
- Baal, Drums in the Night, In the Jungle of Cities, A Respectable Wedding and Other One
Act Plays
Hardcover Vol 001 (September 1990)
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Brecht Collected Plays:
The Good Person of Szechwan
Hardcover Vol 006 (September 1990)
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Brecht Collected Plays:
Life of Galileo
Hardcover Vol 005 (September 1990)
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Brecht Collected Plays:
Mr. Puntilla and His Man Matti
Hardcover Vol 006 (September 1990)
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Brecht Collected Plays
- The Visions of Simone MacHard, Schwcyk in the 2nd Ww, the Caucasian Chalk Circle, and
Brechts Adaptation of the Duchess
Hardcover Vol 007 (September 1990)
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Brecht on
Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
Paperback (September 1994)
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
"A play consisting of a prologue and five scenes by Bertolt
Brecht, first produced in English in 1948 and in German as Der kaukasische Kreidekreis
in 1949. The work is based on the German writer Klabund's play Der Kreidekreis
(1924), itself a translation and adaptation of a Chinese play from the Yuan dynasty
(1206-1368). Brecht's play is set within the context of a dispute over land claimed by two
communes in the Soviet Union after World War II. The main action of the play consists of a
parable that is performed to celebrate the decision in the dispute. The parable, set
during a feudal insurrection in the 13th century, concerns the struggle of two women over
the custody of a child. The dispute between the governor's wife, who abandoned the child,
and the young servant who saved the child and cared for him is settled by an eccentric
judge who places the child in a chalk circle and declares that whichever woman can pull
him from the circle will be granted custody. When the servant, not wanting to harm the
child, lets the governor's wife have him, she is awarded the child, having demonstrated
greater love than the natural mother.' (The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
, April 1, 1995)
Paperback - 144 pages (February 1995)
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Collected Stories
"This illuminating collection of 37 crisp, economically turned
stories is the first US publicationon for the occasion of Brechts centenary
of a volume
that originally appeared in England in 1983. Its a welcome display of the great playwright
and poet (who was also, like Pirandello and Strindberg, a masterly writer of fiction) in
several of his less celebrated roles: as sharp-eyed analyst of social and political life
in Berlin between the World Wars (The Monster, The Job); mischievous historical
revisionist (Socrates Wounded); and purveyor of commercial detective stories (A
Question of Taste). A few stories (Four Men and a Poker Game, Safety First)
adumbrate plays to come, and at least one, the unfinished Life Story of the Boxer
Samson- Krner suggests that this truly protean man of letters might well have become an
important novelist as well." (Kirkus Associates)
Paperback - 256 pages (February 1998)
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Drums in the Night:;
Bertolt Brecht Collected Plays
Paperback (August 1988)
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Galileo
Paperback - 155 pages (October 1991)
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The Good Person of
Szechwan
Paperback - 160
pages (February 1994)
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The Jewish Wife, and Other Short Plays
Paperback (July 1971)
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Jungle of Cities and
Other Plays
Paperback (December 1966)
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Kalendergeschichten
Paperback (November 1960)
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Life of Galileo
Paperback - 288 pages (December 1995)
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Life of
Galileo: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui-the
Caucasian Chalk Circle-3 Plays in 1 Volume
Paperback (February 1994)
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Man Equals Man and the
Elephant Calf
Paperback (August 1988)
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Mother
Paperback (May 1989)
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Mother
Courage and Her Children
"Play by Bertolt Brecht, written in German as Mutter Courage
und ihre Kinder: Eine Chronik aus dem Dreissigjahrigen Krieg, produced in 1941 and
published in 1949. Composed of 12 scenes, the work is a chronicle play of the Thirty
Years' War and is based on the picaresque novel Simplicissimus (1669) by Hans
Jakob Grimmelshausen. In 1949 Brecht staged Mother Courage, with music by Paul
Dessau, in the Soviet sector of Berlin. The plot revolves around a woman who depends on
war for her personal survival and who is nicknamed Mother Courage for her coolness in
safeguarding her merchandise under enemy fire. One by one her three children die, yet she
continues her profiteering." (The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, April 1,
1995)
Paperback - 126
pages Reissue edition (October 1991)
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Plays: The Threepenny
Opera, The Measure Taken, Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children, Baal
Hardcover (June 1999)
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Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti
Paperback - 176 pages (January 1997)
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The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui
Paperback (August 1988)
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The Rise and Fall of
the City of Mahoganny and the Seven Deadly Sins of the Petty Bourgeoisie
Paperback - 144 pages (October 1996)
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Saint Joan of the Stockyards
Joan of Arc is Joan Dark in Saint Joan of the Stockyards,
Bertolt Brecht's first major political drama for the commercial theater. A virtuous knight
in a Christian army of salvation, she makes the stockyards her field of battle when she
clashes with Pierpoint Mauler, meat king and philanthropist, over the heart of business
and the soul of labor.
Paperback - 160
pages (August 1998)
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Selected Poems
Paperback - 320 pages (October 1998)
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The Threepenny Opera
Paperback - 144
pages Arcade edition (April 1995)
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The Tutor
Paperback (April 1989)
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Two Plays by Bertolt
Brecht
Paperback (March 1992)
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The Visions of Simone
MacHard, Schweyk in the Second World War
Paperback (March 1987) |
