The Duchess of Malfi (Brecht)

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The Duchess of Malfi is an adaptation by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of the English seventeenth-century tragedy of the same name by John Webster, about a 16th-century intrigue in Italy. [1] He collaborated with H. R. Hays and Anglo-American poet, W. H. Auden. [2] It was written during Brecht's period of exile in the United States. [2] It premiered in New York, in 1946. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Werner Hecht (1998) Brecht Chronik 1998–1956, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
  2. 1 2 Thomson, Peter; Sacks, Glendyr, eds. (December 21, 2006). The Cambridge Companion to Brecht. Cambridge University Press. p. xxi. ISBN   9781139827737 . Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ Squiers, Anthony (2014). An Introduction to the Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht: Revolution and Aesthetics. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p. 189. ISBN   9789042038998.


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