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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

By Bertolt Brecht

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Pub.
Year
2013
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
476 kB (487483 bytes)
Series
Modern Plays.
Pages
113\113
Time added
2017-01-30 05:28:25
German drama -- 20th century -- Translations into

Description

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 fictional, small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade in the 1930s. The satirical allegory combines Brecht's Epic style of theatre with black comedy and overt didacticism. 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 durin.  Read more...

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