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Hanns Eisler`s Art Songs - Arguing with Beauty by Heidi Hart 9781640140004
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.05Best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, composer Hanns Eisler also set nineteenth-century German poetry to music that both absorbs and disturbs the Lieder tradition. This book traces... -
Drama, Politics, and Evolution: Cliodynamics in Play by Bruce McConachie 9783030813796
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various... -
Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays by Andrei Platonov
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.80In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts... -
Understanding Tony Kushner by James Fisher 9781570037498
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53This is a comprehensive guide to the writing career of the author of ""Angels in America"".""Understanding Tony Kushner"" surveys the acclaimed writings of the author of the Pulitzer Prize - winning... -
Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Post-Communist Democracy by Kasia Szymanska 9780691265469
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.34A new genre of writing demonstrating that translation is neither a transparent medium nor a secondary form of literatureIn Translation Multiples, Kasia Szymanska examines what happens when... -
Engaging with Brecht: Making Theatre in the Twenty-first Century by Bill Gelber 9783031203930
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This book makes the case for Bertolt Brecht's continued importance at a time when events of the 21st century cry out for a studied means of producing theatre for social change. Here is a unique... -
The German Left and Aesthetic Politics: Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht by Martin I. Gaughan
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.05The German Left and Aesthetic Politics examines the articulation of contending materialist aesthetic practices within the ideological fractures of the German Left between the Second and Third... -
The Beauty of a Social Problem: Photography, Autonomy, Economy by Walter Benn Michaels 9780226421186
Booksplease Price: £28.17Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. In The Beauty of a Social Problem, Walter Benn Michaels... -
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"Mother Clap's Molly House": A Play with Songs by Mark Ravenhill 9780413769305
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30'Like bawdy Shakespeare meets wild Wycherley filtered through the formalised camp of John Osborne's A Patriot for Me...how wonderful to see the rabid raw talent of Ravenhhill given the full works'... -
The Beauty of a Social Problem: Photography, Autonomy, Economy Walter Benn Michaels 9780226210261
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. In The Beauty of a Social Problem, Walter Benn Michaels... -
The Faber Pocket Guide to Shakespeare's Plays by Kenneth McLeish
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Going to see a 'Shakespeare' and want a quick run-down on the plot before you start? Teaching the 'Henry's' and need a handy guide to all the histories for the students? A Pocket Guide to... -
Roman Poets in Modern Guise - The Reception of Roman Poetry since World War I by Theodore Ziolkowski
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Identifies and explores Roman modes of poetry as received by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American, German, and French poets. Analogies with Rome have been a powerful motif in... -
Theatre of Anger: Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin by Olivia Landry
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.60In Theatre of Anger, Olivia Landry offers a provocative new vision of anger as more than just hate and violence. Studying the work of a new generation of transnational theatre practitioners in... -
Dramatic Experiments: Life according to Diderot by Eyal Peretz 9781438448039
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £59.88A major new interpretation of the philosophical significance of the oeuvre of Denis Diderot.Dramatic Experiments offers a comprehensive study of Denis Diderot, one of the key figures of European... -
Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook by Joel Schechter 9780415258302
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.13Bertolt Brecht turned to cabaret; Ariane Mnouchkine went to the circus; Joan Littlewood wanted to open a palace of fun. These were a few of the directors who turned to popular theatre forms in the... -
Representation and Reception: Brechtian 'Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking by Shehla Burney 9781433148552
RRP: £73.35Booksplease Price: £65.17Representation and Reception: Brechtian 'Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking deploys German playwright Bertolt Brecht's theory of drama and performance, what he calls "the pedagogics of... -
This Number Does Not Exist by Mangalesh Dabral 9781942683124
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.98An attentive critique on contemporary reality-modernity, capitalism, industrialization-this first United States publication of Mangalesh Dabral, presented in bilingual English and Hindi, speaks for... -
Engaging with Brecht: Making Theatre in the Twenty-first Century by Bill Gelber 9783031203961
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This book makes the case for Bertolt Brecht's continued importance at a time when events of the 21st century cry out for a studied means of producing theatre for social change. Here is a unique... -
Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Post-Communist Democracy by Kasia Szymanska 9780691265490
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A new genre of writing that demonstrates that translation is neither a transparent medium nor a secondary form of literatureIn Translation Multiples, Kasia Szymanska examines what happens when... -
Brecht, Music and Culture: Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge by Hans Bunge 9781472524355
Booksplease Price: £95.49The Austrian composer Hanns Eisler was Bertolt Brecht's closest friend and most politically committed collaborator. In these conversations with Hans Bunge which took place over a period of four... -
Brecht, Music and Culture: Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge by Hans Bunge 9781472528414
Booksplease Price: £29.55The Austrian composer Hanns Eisler was Bertolt Brecht's closest friend and most politically committed collaborator. In these conversations with Hans Bunge which took place over a period of four... -
Karl Marx by Andrew Rowcroft
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Karl Marx is the most important modern philosopher. His work has radically changed the course of world history, continental philosophy, political theory, literary criticism, and cultural studies. The... -
Quaint Honour by Roger Gellert 9781786823786
Booksplease Price: £12.82Quaint Honour, a play about relationships between boys at a boarding school, was first staged in 1958 when homosexuality was still illegal. This publication marks it's revival at the Finborough... -
Hip Hops: Poems about Beer by Christoph Keller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15From Li Bai's 'Bring in the Ale' to Ted Kooser's 'Beer Bottle'; from Robert Burns's' John Barleycorn' to Carol Ann Duffy's 'John Barleycorn' (no, you are not seeing double), the poems collected here... -
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith... -
Karl Marx by Andrew Rowcroft 9780367406028
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Karl Marx is the most important modern philosopher. His work has radically changed the course of world history, continental philosophy, political theory, literary criticism, and cultural studies. The... -
Childhood: An Autobiographical Fragment by Moses Rosenkranz 9780815631781
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Translated from the original Kindheit, written between 1958 and 1980, and published in German in 2003, David Dollenmayer's edition makes this remarkable story available to a much-deserved wider... -
Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin, and Adorno by Eugene Lunn 9780520361232
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin, and Adorno delves into the intricate and transformative interplay between two of the 20th century's most influential... -
Satire by Joel Schechter 9781350140073
Booksplease Price: £19.71Satire reconsiders the entertainment, political dissent and comic social commentary created by innovative writers and directors since this theatrical form took the stage in ancient Athens. From... -
Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform by Stephen Hinton 9780520271777
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.93In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater's key figures... -
Buchner - Complete Plays by Georg Buchner 9780413140906
Booksplease Price: £26.90The complete collection of Buchner's plays in one volume Buchner was acknowledged by figures as divergent as Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht to be the forefather of modern theatre. On his death at... -
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub: Objectivists in Cinema Benoît Turquety 9781041177913
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £45.04Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub collaborated on films together from the mid-1960s through the mid-2000s, making formally radical adaptations in several languages of major works of European... -
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction',... -
Renunciation and Untouchability in India: The Notional and the Empirical in the Caste Order by Srinivasa Ramanujam 9780367785987
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This volume develops a historically informed phenomenology of caste and untouchability. It explores the idea of 'Brahmin' and the practice of untouchability by offering a scholarly reading of ancient... -
Alan Moore, Out from the Underground: Cartooning, Performance, and Dissent by Maggie Gray 9783319882604
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book explores Alan Moore's career as a cartoonist, as shaped by his transdisciplinary practice as a poet, illustrator, musician and playwright as well as his involvement in the Northampton Arts... -
Europe's Intellectuals and the Cold War: The European Society of Culture, Post-War Politics and International Relations by Nancy Jachec 9781350154049
Booksplease Price: £35.46In 1950, nearly 300 of Europe's leading artists, philosophers and writers formed an international society intended to end the Cold War. The European Society of Culture was composed of many of Western... -
Poems by Francois Villon 9780810128781
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91One of the most original and influential European poets of the Middle Ages, Francois Villon took his inspiration from the streets, taverns, and jails of Paris. Villon was a subversive voice speaking... -
The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World by Albert Wertheim 9780253215048
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12"Albert Wertheim's study of Fugard's plays is both extremely insightful and beautifully written-a book that held my attention from beginning to end. It was a pleasure to read! Wertheim succeeds in... -
Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays by Andrei Platonov 9780231181280
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.15In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts... -
Atheism in Christianity: The Religion of the Exodus and the Kingdom by Ernst Bloch 9781844673940
Booksplease Price: £25.15In the twenty-first century, religion has come under determined attack from secular progressives in documentaries, opinion pieces and international bestsellers. Combative atheists have denounced...