{"product_id":"9781472538567","title":"Brecht Plays 8: The Antigone of Sophocles; The Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress","description":"The latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125027455216,"sku":"9781472538567","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781472538567_p0.jpg?v=1763598425","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781472538567","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}