num_pages: 288
description: Includes the first English translation of two plays.Volume 8 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 Hölderlin'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.
language: English
title: Collected Plays 8: The Antigone of Sophocles / The Days of the Commune / Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress
titlecomplete: Collected Plays 8: The Antigone of Sophocles / The Days of the Commune / Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress
genres: Plays, Fiction
ratings_count: 13
series: Brecht Collected Plays
publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama