Bertolt Brecht

A Life of Galileo (eBook, PDF)

Übersetzer: Ravenhill, Mark

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun.

The figure of Galileo, whose 'heretical' discoveries about the solar system brought him to the attention of the Inquisition, is one of Brecht's more human and complex creations. Temporarily silenced by the Inquisition's threat of torture, and forced to abjure his theories publicly, Galileo continues to work in private, eventually smuggling his work out of the country.

Brecht's beautiful depiction of the explosive struggle between scientific discovery and religious fundamentalism is captured masterfully in this new translation by RSC writer-in-residence, Mark Ravenhill.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472513984
• Artikelnr.: 39486173

Autorenporträt

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-W0409-300 / Kolbe, Jörg / CC-BY-SA

Rezensionen

Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation Time Out