The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Student Editions)

This Student Edition of Brecht's classic satire on the rise of Hitler features an extensive<br/>introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of<br/>the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as<br/>questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text.<br/>It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature.<br/>Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler -- recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche - from Al Capone to Shakespeare's Richard III and Goethe's Faust - Brecht's compelling parable continues to have relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today.<br/><br/>Written during the Second World War in 1941, the play was one of the Berliner Ensemble's most outstanding box-office successes in 1959, and has continued to attract a succession of major actors, including Leonard Rossiter, Christopher Plummer, Antony Sher and Al Pacino.