The three plays gathered in this volume are among Bertolt Brecht's most remarkable; the best-known is Jungle of Cities, here translated by the poet Anselm Hollo. Set in Chicago in a climate of rampant capitalism, it is the story of a savage battle waged between two men, whose relationship is at once homosexual and sadomasochistic and whose tightly choreographed hostility is a metaphor for their cultural surround.
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According to Bertolt Brecht himself, Jungle of Cities was to be the round-by-round account of a savage, gratuitous, "unmotivated" fight to the death between two men in that colorful "gigantic city Chicago" the young playwright had created for himself, out of material found in popular "gangster" novels of the period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Bertolt Brecht, Marie Garga, Piccadilly Bar, Sickle League, Hail Iberin, Miss Garga, Zoo District, George Garga, The Roundhead New!
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According to Bertolt Brecht himself, Jungle of Cities was to be the round-by-round account of a savage, gratuitous, "unmotivated" fight to the death between two men in that colorful "gigantic city Chicago" the young playwright had created for himself, out of material found in popular "gangster" novels of the period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lumber business, red moon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bertolt Brecht, Marie Garga, Piccadilly Bar, Sickle League, Hail Iberin, Miss Garga, Zoo District, George Garga, The Roundhead New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Drums in the Night (Bertolt Brecht Collected Plays, Vol 1, Pt 1) by Bertolt Brecht in Front Matter, and page 97
- Ave Maria by Charles Gounod on page 76, and page 117
- Measure for Measure (Oxford School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 281
- A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud on page 3
- Measure for Measure (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare on page 281
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- Baal, A Man's a Man, and the Elephant Calf (Brecht, Bertolt) by Bertolt Brecht in Front Matter
- The Mother by Bertolt Brecht in Front Matter
- Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays: Includes: In Search of Justice; Informer; Elephant Calf; Measures Taken; Exception and the Rule; Salzburg Dance of Death (Brecht, Bertolt) by Bertolt Brecht in Front Matter
- Galileo by Bertolt Brecht in Front Matter
- Manual of Piety: Die Hauspotille (Brecht, Bertolt) by Bertolt Brecht in Front Matter
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