The Threepenny Opera
A reissue of Bertolt Brecht’s classic play, including Brecht’s Notes and an introduction by the great actress and chanteuse Lotte Lenya.
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Mother Courage and Her Children
“In its humor, irony, and truth, it is a work to welcome and cherish.” —The New York Times
keep readingThe Mother
“The virtue of Brecht’s plays is good sense carried to the point of grandeur.” —Harold Clurman
keep readingManual of Piety
“A great poet. . . . Brecht may be considered to have made the major German contribution to world literature in our time.” —Rudolf…
keep readingJungle of the Cities and Other Plays
The three plays gathered in this volume are among Bertolt Brecht’s most remarkable.
keep readingThe Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays
These six plays represent the best and most humorous of Bertolt Brecht’s shorter works.
keep readingGalileo
“The play which most strongly stamped on my mind a sense of Brecht’s great stature as an artist of the modern theatre was Galileo.”…
keep readingEdward II
Bertolt Brecht’s Edward is a hero for the modern era: an existential hero defying a meaningless universe with his courage.
keep readingBaal, A Man’s a Man
“The first thing we recognize in the Brecht productions is their reality: an utterly engrossing reality. . . . We are at once in…
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