This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and comment

The first collection and translation into English of the earliest biographical accounts of Galileo’s life This unique critical edition presents key early biog

Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht's greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex. Unable to resist his appetite for

The first collection and translation into English of the earliest biographical accounts of Galileo’s life This unique critical edition presents key early biog

A play that "charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun"--Amazon.com.