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Galileo shows Andrea a wooden model of the Ptolemaic astronomical system. The model shows the Earth at the center of the universe, with a series of eight crystal spheres holding the Sun, Moon, and planets. Andrea is impressed with the model but says that it feels too “shut in.” Galileo agrees, adding that more people are beginning to feel ...
Brecht's Galileo finds it difficult to defend against the Little Monk's argument that religion gives the common people a sense of purpose and happiness that they would lack if they lost their faith. Brecht's play skips ahead eight years, passing over the time when Galileo continues to conduct research of a nature that is approved by the church.
Jul 1, 2003 · Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose work has had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include Mother Courage and Her Children, The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
- Bertolt Brecht
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 succ
Life of Galileo, also known as Galileo, is a play by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht with incidental music by Hanns Eisler. The play was written in 1938 and received its first theatrical production (in German) at the Zurich Schauspielhaus, opening on 9 September 1943.
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