Collected plays volume 2 : A Man's Man, Rise and Fall of Mahagonny, The Threepenny Opera / [of] Bertolt Brecht; edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim.

This is volume two of the nine volume series of the collected plays of Bertolt Brecht. Our library has nine volumes of this series. Volume 1 precedes this volume. Volume 3 succeeds this volume. The series consists of translations of Brecht's famed plays including translations of 'The Threepenny Opera, his most famous work written with the likes of Kurt Weill. 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' is also included in addition to his other notable plays. Known for his work in theatre criticism, particularly Epic Theatre, Brecht was also a playwright and poet.

A man's a man / Translated by Gerard Nelhaus -- Appendix : The Baby Elephant -- Translated by Gerhard Nelhaus -- Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny / Translated by Ralph Mannheim and John Willet --

Notes and Variants : A Man's a Man -- The A Man's a Man song -- Press release -- Epic Sequence of events -- Two notes -- Introductory speech (for the radio) -- Dialogue about Bertolt Brecht's play A Man's a Man -- The question of criteria for judging acting -- Scene 1 in English -- On looking through my first plays (v) / Text by Brecht -- Notes and variants -- A Man's Man -- Editorial Notes -- Evolution of the play -- Notes on individual scenes / Editorial Notes --

Notes and Variants : Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny --Notes to the opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogonny / Text by Brecht -- Notes and Variants : Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny -- On Kurt Weill's notes to Mahagonny / Editorial notes-- Editorial Notes -- Songs, songspiel, opera -- The opera : notes on individual scenes / Editorial notes --

Notes and variants : The Threepenny Opera -- Additional songs from 'The Bruise' -- Appendix : On the Threepenny Opera -- A statement -- Notes to the Threepenny Opera -- Stage design for The Threepenny Opera / Texts by Brecht -- Notes and Variants : The Threepenny Opera -- On Kurt Weil's open letter / Editorial notes -- Transcript -- Conversation between Brecht and Giogio Strehler / By Bertolt Brecht and Giorgio Strehler -- Notes and Variants : The Threepenny Opera -- Editorial Notes -- General -- The 1928 stage script -- From the stage script to the present text / By Ralph Manheim and John Willet.

"In this volume of the new, authorized translation of the collected plays of Bertolt Brecht are three plays that he wrote in Berlin between 1925 and 1929-including the Threepenny Opera, his most familiar and most performed work. The translations are edited by Ralph Manheim, winner of the National Book Award for translation, and John Willet, author of a standard work on Brecht. An introduction places these plays in the context of Brecht's total work and editorial notes give variant texts as well as Brecht's own notes and performance instructions." -- from the book jacket

Translation from German to English.