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The Many Lives of Galileo

Brecht, Theatre and Translation's Political Unconscious
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The Many Lives of Galileo is a Marxist study of the development of Bertolt Brecht's great play Galileo 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, The Life of Galileo has come to figure so prominently in the life of English-language theatre. The translations and productions of Galileo 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. 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.

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The Author: Dougal McNeill was born and educated in Dunedin, New Zealand. He studied English and German literature at the University of Otago and at Victoria University of Wellington. He is a tutor at the School of English, Film and Theatre at Victoria University.
Release date Australia
July 29th, 2005
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  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
155
ISBN-13
9783039105366
Product ID
11706316

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