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Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921) Dr. David J. Shepherd (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921) By Dr. David J. Shepherd (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921) by Dr. David J. Shepherd (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)


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Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921) Summary

Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921): An Interdisciplinary Study by Dr. David J. Shepherd (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

This volume offers an examination of Brechts largely forgotten theatrical fragments of a life of David, written just after the Great War but prior to Brecht winning the Kleist Prize in 1922 and the acclaim that would launch his extraordinary career. David J. Shepherd and Nicholas E. Johnson take as their starting point Brechts own diaries from the time, which offer a vivid picture of the young Brecht shuttling between Munich and the family home in Augsburg, surrounded by friends, torn between women, desperate for success, and all the while with David on the brain. The analysis of Brechts David, along with his notebooks and diaries, reveals significant connections between the reception of the Biblical David and one of Germanys most tumultuous cultural periods. Drawing on theatrical experiments conducted with an ensemble from Trinity College Dublin, this volume includes the first ever translation of the David fragments in English, an extensive discussion of the theatrical afterlife of David in the early twentieth century as well as new interdisciplinary insights into the early Brecht: a writer entranced by the biblical David and utterly committed to translating the biblical tradition into his own evolving theatrical idiom.

Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921) Reviews

Besides contributing to Brecht, theatre, translation, biblical and reception studiesboth Brechtian and biblicalthis book offers a model for collaborative research. * Journal for the Study of the Old Testament *

About Dr. David J. Shepherd (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

David Shepherd is Assistant Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Nicholas E. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Drama at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Table of Contents

List of photographs List of tables Acknowledgments A note on the text List of abbreviations Introduction: Brechts David fragments Chapter 1: The David fragments in translation Chapter 2: Brechts David and the biblical David Uriah, Bathsheba, Absalom and Jesse Chapter 3: Brechts David and the biblical David Jonathan, Saul and David Chapter 4: Brechts David and other adaptations Feuchtwanger, Zarek and Gide Chapter 5: The David fragments in practice and performance Concluding reflections: after David Bibliography Index of biblical sources Index of subjects Index of authors

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Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921): An Interdisciplinary Study by Dr. David J. Shepherd (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2020-04-16
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