Life of Galileo is a play by German playwright Bertolt Brecht. The play was first performed in in Zurich, accompanied by music by German composer Hanns Eisler. The play chronicles the illustrious but tragic career of the Italian philosopher and astronomer Galileo Galilei, with particular attention to his persecution, trial, and punishment by the Catholic Church for sharing his scientific findings with the world. Galileo ranks alongside Mother Courage and Mr. Puntila as one of Brecht's most intensely alive, human, and complex characters. In Life of Galileo, the great Renaissance scientist is in a brutal struggle for freedom from authoritarian dogma. Unable to satisfy his appetite for scientific investigation, he comes into conflict with the Inquisition and must publicly renounce his theories, though in private he goes on Cited by: Galileo by Bertolt Brecht: Summary. Galileo by Brecht is based on the real life of the seventeenth century astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei. The play is in fourteen scenes which is a break from the conventional pattern of dividing the play into acts and scenes. Bertolt Brecht ().
Bertolt Brecht (Author), Life of Galileo has few equals. Written in exile in and first performed in Zurich in , Galileo was first staged in English in by Joseph Losey in a version jointly prepared by Brecht and Charles Laughton, who played the title role. Printed here is the complete translation by Brecht scholar John Willett. The deadly bubonic plague ripped through Italy during Galileo 's life, and in Brecht's time, hundreds of years later, an influenza outbreak gripped the entire world. Both Galileo and Brecht's societies went to great (and sometimes inhumane) lengths to stop disease from spreading, often by segregating the sick from the healthy, a method that had limited success. Although The Life of Galileo is a historical play, it does not merely to show Galileo's life as a scientist. Claude Hill in his book Bertolt Brecht explains, "A dramatist rarely if ever merely aims at total accuracy when he chooses historical material; he must be judged by other criteria" ().
Life of Galileo (German: Leben des Galilei), also known as Galileo, is a play by the 20th century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht with incidental music by Hanns Eisler. The play was written in and received its first theatrical production (in German) at the Zurich Schauspielhaus, opening on the 9th of September In the year sixteen hundred and nine Science' light began to shine. At Padua city, in a modest house Galileo Galilei set out to prove The sun is still, the earth is on the move. Galileo's modest study in Padua. It is morning. A boy, Andrea, the housekeeper's son, brings in a glass of milk and a roll. Life of Galileo is a play by German playwright Bertolt Brecht. The play was first performed in in Zurich, accompanied by music by German composer Hanns Eisler. The play chronicles the illustrious but tragic career of the Italian philosopher and astronomer Galileo Galilei, with particular attention to his persecution, trial, and punishment by the Catholic Church for sharing his scientific findings with the world.
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