Señora Carrar's rifles / Bertolt Brecht ; translated by Wolfgang Sauerlander.
| Author/creator | Brecht, Bertolt author. |
| Other author | Sauerländer, Wolfgang, translator. |
| Other author | Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | London : Bloomsbury, [2013] |
| Copyright Date | ©2013 |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Drama online |
| Uniform title | Gewehre der Frau Carrar. English |
| Summary | Partly based on Synge's 'Riders to the Sea', 'Señora Carrar's Rifles' transposes the Irish play of the early 20th century to mid-century Andalucia. There, a fisherwoman named Teresa Carrar is trying desperately to maintain a normal life even as the civil war closes in around her; having killed her husband it proposes now to sweep up her two sons as well. Teresa hopes to insulate her boys from the fighting, believing she can keep her head down, sew nets and send the boats out, and the war need not touch them. But tragedy strikes her eldest on the waves, causing her to rethink her position of non-engagement. Written as an Aristotelian drama, based on empathy, rather than Brecht's own theories of Epic theatre, 'Señora Carrar's Rifles' is one of Brecht's more immediately accessible plays. It premiered in Paris, 1937. |
| General note | Previously issued in print: in Collected plays four. London: Methuen Drama, 2003. |
| General note | Translated from the German. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 28, 2013). |
| Genre/form | Drama. |
| Standard identifier# | 10.5040/9781408168981.00000026 |
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