Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Modern Plays) - Softcover

Brecht, Bertolt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413344509 ISBN 13: 9780413344502

Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1976

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century Observer

About the Author:

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and writing have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera and, while exiled from Germany and living in the USA, such masterpieces as The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0413344509
• ISBN 13: 9780413344502
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96