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A Life of Galileo
Bertolt Brecht
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Description for A Life of Galileo
Paperback. Translator(s): Ravenhill, Mark. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 7. Weight in Grams: 100.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Modern Plays
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472507419
SKU
V9781472507419
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About Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and writing have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera and, while exiled from Germany and living in the USA, such masterpieces as Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. ... Read more
Reviews for A Life of Galileo
Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation
Time Out
There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill . . . He is . . . a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism.
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Time Out
There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill . . . He is . . . a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism.
... Read more