by Bertolt Brecht, Eric Bentley
The Foreword to one edition I read of this play (admiringly) calls Brecht's nature "cold, clinical" and tells us he consciously rejected what he called "Aristelian" drama that seeks its audience to feel empathy for the characters. Instead Brecht embraced alienation. He was also famously a Marxist an...
Humorous, satirical interpretation of the saga of Galileo and the Church.