Read-Aloud: "Life of Galileo", by Bertholdt Brecht

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In all Brecht’s work there is no more substantial and significant landmark than the first version of Galileo, which he wrote in three weeks of November 1938, not long after the Munich agreement had opened the door of Eastern Europe to Hitler. As is well known, it inaugurated the series of major plays whose writing occupied him until his return to Germany some ten years later: from Mother Courage to The Days of the Commune, those great works of his forties on which his reputation largely rests.

Brecht, Bertolt. Brecht Collected Plays: 5: Life of Galileo; Mother Courage and Her Children (World Classics) (p. 9). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.

Image from 2017 Young Vic production.

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