Two Plays by Bertolt Brecht

by Bertolt Brecht and bertolt-brecht-revised-english-versions-by-eric-bentley

Book Overview

Revised English versions and introduction by Eric Bentley. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452010551
• ISBN13: 9780452010550
• Release Date: May 1983
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Hard are the words of truth, like dry bread that can't be eaten.

I find in Brecht's Good Woman a Mary Magdalen : 11 good men and a woman to wash their feet can change the world. Is truth reality? Can a playwright get by with telling it as he sees it? Any Sophist can tell you that materialism rules the earth. The first play is about goodness and the last is about justice,they have some common sense together. In this day when the world is pregnant around us, who will be judged the father? Both Communism and Capitalism have been materialistically raising these planet breaking industrial children. And we are left looking for a good person to raise the chaos child of disaster?

Very Recommendable!

"The Good Woman of Sezuan" is my favourite play of Brecht's and I really recommend it to anyone who is interested in german literature and plays. It's also a good one to start if this is your first contact with Bertolt Brecht!

Good book

Well written, talented authors! I really liked it!