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The Decision (play) Don Juan (Brecht) Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer; Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer (American premiere) Driving Out a Devil; Drums in the Night; The Duchess of Malfi (Brecht)
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Plays by Bertolt Brecht (1 C, 52 P) S. Songs with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht (8 P) Pages in category "Works by Bertolt Brecht"
Brecht, in his typical anti-realist style, uses the device of a "play within a play".The "frame" play is set in the Soviet Union around the end of the Second World War.It shows a dispute between two communes, the Collective Fruit Farm Galinsk fruit growing commune and the Collective Goat Farmers, over who is to own and manage an area of farm land after the Nazis have retreated from a village ...
It was the first premiere of Brecht's final season at the Berliner Ensemble. [3] Willett identifies an instance of Brecht's lifelong indebtedness to Rudyard Kipling in the play's "Song of the Women of Gaa." [4] The production strongly influenced the English director William Gaskill's reinterpretation of Farquhar's original play for the National ...
The central theme of the confrontation of the individualistic urges of a strong (male) individual (Fatzer) versus the solidarity to a group is described by Müller as Brecht's immense effort to consolidate the stance of his early plays with the new Marxist approach to the Lehrstücke, as "attrition warfare Brecht against Brecht (=Nietzsche ...
Man Equals Man (German: Mann ist Mann), or A Man's a Man, is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. One of Brecht's earlier works, it explores themes of war, human fungibility, and identity. [1]
The play, due to its investigation of class differences between rich and poor, with the poor 'losing out', can be seen as arguing in favor of Brecht's Marxist politics. Brecht wishes to draw attention to the status quo, in which the working class is exploited by the ruling class, and show the absurdity of such an arrangement.
The most common translation for the title, Die Maßnahme, in English is The Measures Taken. The only translation titled The Decision is by John Willett.. The first known published English-language translation of Die Maßnahme is the inaccurate and libelous version of the cantata, titled The Rule [or Doctrine].