The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

By:

Bertolt Brecht

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Modern Classics

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Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche - from Al Capone to Shakespeare's Richard III and Goethe's Faust - Brecht's compelling parable continues to have relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today. Written during the Second World War in 1941, the play was one of the Berliner Ensemble's most outstanding box-office successes in 1959, and has continued to attract a succession of major actors, including Leonard Rossiter, Christopher Plummer, Antony Sher and Al Pacino. Presented in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this is the standard critical edition of the play featuring extensive editorial notes and an introduction.

Author Biography:

A major dramatist of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)was the founder of one of the most influential theatre companies, theBerliner Ensemble, and the creator of some of the landmark plays of thetwentieth century: The Threepenny Opera, The Life of Galileo, MotherCourage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

Release date NZ

September 3rd, 1981

Author

Bertolt Brecht

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Edited by John Willett
Edited by Ralph Manheim
Translated by Ralph Manheim
Volume editor John Willett
Volume editor Ralph Manheim

Pages

144

Series

Modern Classics

Dimensions

129x198x9

ISBN-13

9780413478108

Product ID

2562027

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