{"product_id":"the-many-lives-of-galileo-brecht-theatre-and-translations-political-unconscious-9783039105366","title":"The Many Lives of Galileo: Brecht, Theatre and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Many Lives of Galileo\u003c\/i\u003e is a Marxist study of the development of Bertolt Brecht's great play \u003ci\u003eGalileo\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Galileo\u003c\/i\u003e has come to figure so prominently in the life of English-language theatre.\u003cbr\u003e The translations and productions of \u003ci\u003eGalileo\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043712893271,"sku":"9783039105366","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-many-lives-of-galileo-brecht-theatre-and-translations-political-unconscious-9783039105366","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}