Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain
events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of
the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago
gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide
range of parody and pastiche - from Al Capone to Shakespeare's Richard
III and Goethe's Faust - Brecht's compelling parable continues to have
relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today. Written during the
Second World War in 1941, the play was one of the Berliner Ensemble's
most outstanding box-office successes in 1959, and has continued to
attract a succession of major actors, including Leonard Rossiter,
Christopher Plummer, Antony Sher and Al Pacino. Presented in Methuen
Drama's Modern Classics series, this is the standard critical edition
of the play featuring extensive editorial notes and an introduction.
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9781408162156
Publisert
2015
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Methuen Drama
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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