{"product_id":"brecht-collected-plays-1","title":"Brecht Collected Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVolume 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":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833466335437,"sku":"9780413773524","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_ebfb1598-17ec-4091-a927-e8d9103c5f83.jpg?v=1790874771","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/brecht-collected-plays-1","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}