Brecht in English Translation

The following list includes most of the Brecht volumes currently available in English translation. For additional out-of-print translations and editions, see the bibliographies in The Cambridge Companion to Brecht, ed. by Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks (Cambridge University Press, 2nd revised ed., 2006), pp. 288-90, or A Bertolt Brecht Reference Companion, ed. by Siegfried Mews (Greenwood Press, 1997), pp. 399-402.

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Brecht's Works in English: A Bibliography
Check this new website if you are looking for translations of Brecht's plays, poems, songs, stories, or essays in English translation: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/BrechtGuide/

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For a tabular overview of Brecht's works in English translation, click here: http://members.tripod.com/~go20ccm/bine03021999.html#SamuelFrench

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Brecht's works in English translation were published until 2006 mainly by Methuen Publishing Ltd. These editions are now sold by A&C Black Publishers Ltd. in London.

The following volumes are available:

Vol. 1 (Baal, Drums in the Night, In the Jungle of Cities, The Life of Edward II of England, and five one-act plays) ISBN 0413 685 705
Vol. 2 (Man Equals Man, The Elephant Calf, The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The Seven Deadly Sins) ISBN 0413 685 608
Vol. 3 (St. Joan of the Stockyards, Lindbergh's Flight, The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent, He Said Yes / He Said No, The Decision, The Exception and the Rule, The Horatians and the Curiations, The Mother) ISBN 0413 704 602
Vol. 4 (Round Heads and Pointed Heads, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, Senora Carrar's Rifles, Dansen, How Much is Your Iron? The Trial of Lucullus) ISBN 0413 472302
Vol. 5 (Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children) ISBN 0413 699 706
Vol. 6 (The Good Person of Szechwan, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Mr Puntila and His Man Matti) ISBN 0413 685 802
Vol. 7 (The Visions of Simone Machard, Schweyk in the Second World War, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Duchess of Malfi) ISBN 0413 685 90X
Vol. 8 (Antigone, The Days of the Commune, Turandot) ISBN 0413758702

Also available from A.C. Black by Brecht:

Poems 1913-1956, Ed. by John Willett and Ralph Manheim. ISBN 0413 152 103
Poems and Songs from the Plays, trans. and ed. by John Willett. (171 poems not included in Poems 1913-1956) ISBN 0413 668 304
Bad Time for Poetry, ed. John Willett. ISBN 0413 690 504
Brecht on Theatre. Trans. and ed. John Willett. ISBN 0413 388 00X
Brecht on Film and Radio. Trans. and ed. Marc Silberman. (2001) ISBN 0 413 727602
Brecht on Art and Politics, ed. by Tom Kuhn and Steve Giles (2003) ISBN 0-413-75890-7
Journals 1934-1955. Trans. by Hugh Rorrison. Ed. by John Willett. ISBN 0413 682 404
Letters 1913-1956. Trans. by Ralph Manheim. Ed. by John Willett. Temporarily out of print. ISBN 0413 510 506
Diaries 1920-1922. Ed. by Hertha Ramthun. ISBN 0413 384 500
Collected Short Stories. Ed. by John Willett and Ralph Manheim. ISBN 0413 528 901
Mother Courage and Her Children (the National Theatre version, 1995, by David Hare) ISBN 0 413 70290 1
The Messingkauf Dialogues. ISBN 0413 388 905
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Ed. and trans. Steve Giles. ISBN 9780713686746

For more information:

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London W1D 3QZ
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fax: 020 / 7758 0222 or 0333
www.acblack.com/search.asp [enter 'brecht' in the search field]

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Arcade Publishing in the United States is issuing individual volumes from the Methuen series. The following are or will be available with extensive notes and commentaries:

Mother Courage and Her Children. Trans. by John Willett. ISBN 155970 234 6
Mother Courage and Her Children. Trans. by David Hare for the National Theatre. ISBN 155970 361 X
The Three-Penny Opera. Trans. by Ralph Manheim and John Willett. ISBN 155970 252 4
The Life of Galileo. Trans. by John Willett. ISBN 155970 254 0
Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti. Trans. by John Willett. ISBN 155970 280 X
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Seven Deadly Sins. Trans. by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. ISBN155970 279 6
The Good Person of Szechwan. Trans. by John Willett. ISBN 155970 235 4
The Good Person of Szechwan. Adapted by Tony Kushner. ISBN 155970 360 1(in preparation for 1998)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Trans. by James and Tania Stern with W. H. Auden. ISBN 155970 253 2
Baal. Trans. by Peter Tegel. (in preparation for 1998)
Saint Joan of the Stockyards. Trans. by Ralph Manheim. (in preparation for 1998)
Collected Short Stories. Ed. by John Willett and Ralph Mannheim. Intro. by Marc Silberman and Shuhsi Kao. ISBN 155 970 402 0 (in preparation for 1998)

Arcade Publishing
141 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
Fax 212 / 353 8148
http://www.arcadepub.com/backlist/index.cfm

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Available from City Lights

Bertolt Brecht. The Stories of Mr. Keuner. Translated by Martin Chalmers. San Francisco: City Lights, 2001. 111 pages. ISBN 087286-383-2

City Lights Books
261 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94133
www.citylights.com

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Grove Atlantic publishes the following translations of Brecht plays under the editorship of Eric Bentley [www.groveatlantic.com], search ‘brecht’

Three Plays: Baal, A Man’s a Man, The Elephant Calf. Translated by Eric Bentley. ISBN 080213159X
Edward II. Translated by Eric Bentley. ISBN 0802151477
Galileo. Translated by Charles Laughton. ISBN 0802130593
The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays (Three scenes from Fear and Misery of the Third Reich: The Jewish Wife, In Search of Justice, The Informer; The Measures Taken, The Exception and the Rule, Salzburg Dance of Death, What Was He Killed For?). Translated by Eric Bentley. ISBN 0802150985
Jungle of the Cities and Other Plays (includes also Drums in the Night and Roundheads and Peakheads). Translated by Anselm Hollo and Frank Jones. ISBN 0802151493
Manual of Piety . ISBN 0802132456
Mother Courage and Her Children . Translated by Eric Bentley. ISBN 0802130828
The Mother . Translated by Lee Baxandall. ISBN 0802131603
Nine Plays of the Modern Theatre (includes The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Translated by Eric Bentley ). ISBN 0802150322
The Threepenny Opera . Translated by Bentley and Desmond Vesey. ISBN 080215039X

Grove Press
841 Broadway
New York, NY 10003

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New titles from the University of Minnesota Press

The Good Woman of Setzuan English version by Eric Bentley (1999) ISBN 0-8166-3527-7 (reprint of 1948 version)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle English version by Eric Bentley (1999) ISBN 0-8166-3528-5, (reprint of 1948 version)

At present Bentley translations of "Der kaukasische Kreidekreis" and "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan" are on sale world wide in editions from two different publishers, one from Penguin and the other from University of Minnesota Press. The Penguin editions will no longer be marketed when the present printing is exhausted, and Minnesota will remain alone in the field. Why is this? Minnesota contracted with Brecht and Bentley for world rights in l947. They published the two plays in one volume as "Parables for the Theatre," but later farmed them out to two other publishers, Grove and Penguin, who ran them in two separate volumes. And of course there were revisions, some of them extensive. Thus, there is no single "Bentley version" of such Brecht plays; rather, there are at least two Bentley versions, and sometimes more, a fact that has caused some confusion among commentators.

Available from Continuum - The German Library

Bertolt Becht. Poetry and Prose. Ed. by Reinhold Grimm in collaboration
with Caroline Molina y Vedia. New York and London: Continuum - The German
Library, 2003. 149 pages. I505-SBN 0-8264-9 (US$ 24.95 pb)
[includes 42 German/English poetry selections from all phases as well as
two Tales from the Calendar ("Socrates Wounded," "The Unseemly Old Lady");
translations from the Methuen Brecht edition]

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