Coriolanus (Brecht)

For other uses, see Coriolanus (disambiguation).

Coriolanus is an unfinished German adaptation by the modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht of the English 17th-century tragedy by William Shakespeare.^[1] Brecht wrote it sometime between 1951 and 1953.^[1] Brecht discusses his development of the original and his ideas for its staging in an essay entitled "Study of the First Scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus", which is written in the form of a dialogue with his collaborators at the Berliner Ensemble theatre company.^[2] The play was first staged by Heinrich Koch at the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus theatre, where it opened on 22 September, 1962.^[1] It was later staged by the Berliner Ensemble in September 1964.^[1] Ruth Berghaus became famous for her staging of the slaughter scenes in this production. The play was published in an English translation by Ralph Manheim in volume nine of Brecht's Collected Plays.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Willett (1959, 63).
2. ^ Brecht (1964, 252-265).
3. ^ Manheim and Willett (1972, 57-146).

Works cited

• Brecht, Bertolt. 1964. Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic. Ed. and trans. John Willett. British edition. London: Methuen. ISBN 041338800X. USA edition. New York: Hill and Wang. ISBN 0809031000.
• Manheim, Ralph and John Willett, eds. 1972. Collected Plays: Nine. By Bertolt Brecht. Bertolt Brecht: Plays, Poetry, Prose Ser. New York: Vintage. ISBN 0394718194.
• Willett, John. 1959. The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects. London: Methuen. ISBN 0413 34360 X.

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