Bertolt Brecht and the David fragments (1919-1921) : an interdisciplinary study / David J. Shepherd and Nicholas E. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shepherd, David, 1972- author.

Johnson, Nicholas E., 1981- author.

Series:

Scriptural traces ; 26.

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 699.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Scriptural traces : critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible ; 26

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies ; 699

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. David.

Brecht, Bertolt.

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956--Criticism and interpretation.

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956--Diaries.

David, King of Israel.

David.

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.

Bible--In literature.

Bible.

Literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Diaries.

Physical Description:

xvi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : T&T Clark, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

Summary:

"This volume offers an examination of Brecht's 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 Brecht's 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 Brecht's David, along with his notebooks and diaries, reveals significant connections between the reception of the Biblical David and one of Germany's 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"-- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction : Brecht's David fragments

The David fragments in translation

Brecht's David and the biblical David : Uriah, Bathsheba, Absalom and Jesse

Brecht's David and the biblical David : Jonathan, Saul and David

Brecht's David and other adaptations : Feuchtwanger, Zarek and Gide

The David fragments in practice and performance

Concluding reflections : after David.

Notes:

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-226) and index.

Contains:

Container of: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. David. Fragments. English (Shepherd and Johnson)

ISBN:

9780567685643

0567685640

OCLC:

1151946220