The Many Lives of Galileo
Brecht, Theatre and Translation's Political Unconscious
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ISBN-13:
9783039105366
Veröffentl:
2005
Seiten:
160
Autor:
Dougal McNeill
Gewicht:
240 g
Format:
220x150x8 mm
Serie:
7, Stage and Screen Studies
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The Many Lives of Galileo is a Marxist study of the development of Bertolt Brecht's great play Galileo on the English stage. Tracing various translations of Brecht's original, and the historical and political moments surrounding these translations, Dougal McNeill examines how, across the distances of culture, history and language, The Life of Galileo has come to figure so prominently in the life of English-language theatre.
The translations and productions of Galileo by Charles Laughton, Howard Brenton and David Hare are examined, in a method combining close reading with an attention to broader social contexts, with an eye to uncovering their implications for drama in performance.
Brecht valued re-creation, re-invention and re-telling as much as creation itself. In this book the author applies Brecht's aesthetic to translations of his own work, following Laughton, Brenton and Hare as they set themselves the task of rewriting Brecht and, in the process, use him to comment on their own eras.
The translations and productions of Galileo by Charles Laughton, Howard Brenton and David Hare are examined, in a method combining close reading with an attention to broader social contexts, with an eye to uncovering their implications for drama in performance.
Brecht valued re-creation, re-invention and re-telling as much as creation itself. In this book the author applies Brecht's aesthetic to translations of his own work, following Laughton, Brenton and Hare as they set themselves the task of rewriting Brecht and, in the process, use him to comment on their own eras.
Contents: Theatre history - Bertolt Brecht scholarship - Contemporary British drama - David Hare scholarship - Howard Brenton scholarship -Translation studies - Production studies - Marxist literary theory - Modern drama - Literary studies.