{"product_id":"books-brecht-plays-8-by-tom-kuhn","title":"Brecht Plays 8","description":"The latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English Volume 8 of Brecht's collected plays contains his last completed plays, from the eight years between his return from America to Europe after the war and his death in 1956. Brecht's ANTIGONE (1948) is a bold adaptation of Holderlin's classic German translation of Sophocles' play. A reflection on resistance and dictatorship in the aftermath of Nazism, it was a radical new experiment in epic theatre. THE DAYS OF THE COMMUNE (1949) is a semi-documentary account of the Paris Commune, and Brecht's most serious and ambitious historical play. TURANDOT is Brecht's version of the classic Chinese story is a satire on the intelligentsia of the Weimar Republic, Nazi bureaucracy, and other targets.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54425030197521,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780413773524.jpg?v=1787609375","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-brecht-plays-8-by-tom-kuhn","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}