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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A banquet bloodbath: Shakespeare as a contemporary Western civilization commentaryBy slam_inc.MULLER AFTER SHAKESPEARE is a new collection of Heiner Muller translations collected by PAJ Publishing and Edited and translated by Carl Weber (with additional translation by Paul David Young). Muller's most famous work is his HAMLETMACHINE an eight page deconstruction of Shakespeare's celebrated tragedy. This new volume brings to us two great new translations of Muller's other Shakespeare adaptations, MACBETH AFTER SHAKESPEARE and ANATOMY TITUS FALL OF ROME A SHAKESPEARE COMMENTARY, as well as an address: SHAKESPEARE, A DIFFERENCE. MULLER AFTER SHAKESPEARE is an indispensable read.MACBETH AFTER SHAKESPEARE (1970): Muller uses Macbeth to remark on the bloody struggle for power and its costs. That he notes Macbeth as a variation on the rise of Stalin is not that surprising. Muller's Macbeth is gorier than the original and juxtaposes scenes depicting the power struggles of the ruling class with scenes offering commentary from the lower class (be they peasants, servants or soldiers.) Muller's Macbeth is a fine adaptation: leaner and more brutal. It stays close to the original in terms of structure and dramaturgy but it's undercutting of the struggles of the nobility with the struggles of the lower cast makes for a noteworthy socio- economic commentary. Macbeth is the first of Muller's full adaptations of Shakespeare (Macbeth, and Titus Andronicus)and though not his first discourse with the bard he is biting quick at the tip. His Macbeth is not as radical a transformation as HAMLETMACHINE or ANATOMY TITUS FALL OF ROME. But it makes for a controversial re- reading of the bloody Scottish revolution, the anxiety of the drive for power and puts it in the context of a wider social and economic struggle.ANATOMY TITUS FALL OF ROME A SHAKESPEARE COMMENTARY (1985): Western civilization at the height of its power and at the brink of its collapse. Anatomy Titus is a rage filled commentary of western civilization's bloodlust for war, colonization and power. It also serves as a commentary on the dramaturgy of the bloody revenge tragedy (to which Hamlet is also a relative.) Muller breaks down the structure of this piece from manically constructed narrative choral pieces to traditional dramatic scenes. He takes an already gruesome play and turns it into an ultra-violence horror show. Titus the old commander is an insane bloodthirsty soldier. He has conquered the brutal race of the Goths in the name of Rome and taken their queen as captive. He slaughters her eldest son and crowns a new Caesar. These events spark the blood feud which encapsulates the play as the new Caesar takes the Goth Queen for his bride. Anatomy Titus boils at the heart of darkness in the soul of man. Revenge is a dish well served in a pie. Muller takes on this immortal conflict-the coveting of revenge (in ignorance) - as the means to the fall of civilization as we know it. Couple this with the lust for colonization of the third world, as represented in the conflict with the Moor, Aaron and the 'barbaric' Goths; we find that western civilization is fighting a battle it can't win. The brutality against the uncivilized world is ultimately what brings Rome to its knees. Anatomy Titus is a wild play which offers the reader and performer a delectable treat. Muller challenges the mores of western civilization and shows its bloodlust for what it is. He illustrates the threat of challenging the third world for sport. This element of the play takes on new life in the wake of the ongoing conflict between the western and Muslim worlds.SHAKESPEARE, A DIFFERENCE (1988): This address made in Weimar in 1988 for a Shakespeare conference is a fascinating statement on Muller's view of Shakespeare's role/influence in the modern/contemporary world. It also offers an evolution of Muller's own thoughts on the Bard throughout his own life. An excerpt:"Meantime the war of the landscapes, which are working toward the disappearance of Man who has devastated them, isn't a mere metaphor anymore. Dark times, when a discourse about trees was nearly a crime. The times have become brighter, the shadows fade out, it's a crime to be silent about trees. The horror that emanates from Shakespeare's mirror images is the recurrence of the same. A horror that drove Nietzsche, the God-forsaken reverend's son, from the misery of the philosophies into his dance of knives with the ghosts from the future, from the silence of the academies onto the white-hot high wire of history, stretched BY AN IDIOT FULL OF SOUND AND FURY between TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW.The accent is on the AND, the truth is a steerage passenger, the abyss is the hope. Vasily Grossman has Stalin - the Meritorious Murderer of the People, as Brecht once called him - see in the German tank turrets moving towards Moscow a thousand times the murdered Trotsky, Creator of the Red Army and the Executioner of Kronstadt. A Shakespeare variant: Macbeth sees Banquo's , and a difference. Our task - or the rest will be statistics and a matter of computers - is the work at this difference. Hamlet, the failure, didn't accomplish it, this is his crime. Prospero is the undead Hamlet: after all, he smashes his staff, a reply to the new Shakespeare reader Caliban's topical rebuke to all hitherto existing culture: YOU TAUGHT ME LANGUAGE AND MY PROFIT ON'T IS I KNOW HOW TO CURSE. "Other available collections of Muller plays and texts include: EXPLOSION OF A MEMORY (PAJ), THE BATTLE (PAJ), HAMLETMACHINE AND OTHER TEXTS FOR THE STAGE (PAJ), A HEINER MULLER READER (Johns Hopkins/PAJ), THREE PLAYS (Seagull Books), GERMANIA (Semiotext (e)) and THEATREMACHINE (Faber and Faber)0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. a jewel from the recent pastBy david gothardquality of writing;quality of book cover design. HM is a magnificent voice from the recent days of the cold war

Heiner Müller After Shakespeare makes available for the first time Macbeth and Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome, the last of the Shakespeare-inspired plays of the renowned German author to be translated into English. His reflections on the importance of his chosen dramatic model are highlighted in the text of his address Shakespeare A Difference, also included in the volume. Müller (1929-1995), whose Hamletmachine is a contemporary classic, is regarded as one of the most profound visionaries of twentieth-century drama and at the time of his death was one of Europe’s leading intellectual figures. His Shakespeare plays are startling in their imagery and poetry and uncompromising depiction of the violence of power and politics. Truly, they are plays for our age.Since first introducing his work to the English- speaking world in 1983 with Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage, PAJ Publications has also published several other volumes by the author: Explosion of a Memory, The Battle, The Heiner Müller Reader. They include his dramatic works as well as poems, speeches, and interviews. Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage is one of PAJ’s best-selling titles, with over 10,000 volumes in print.The volume is translated by Carl Weber and Paul David Young. Weber has edited and translated all the Müller volumes, as well as plays by Kleist, Handke, and Kroetz. Also a director, he is professor emeritus at Stanford University. Young is the recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Paul Vogel Playwriting Award. He is currently working on a film version of his play In the Summer Pavilion.“Heiner Müller was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and will undoubtedly be among the most indispensable of the 21st, the terrors of which his plays seem to have anticipated and anatomized. As Shakespeare’s dramatic poems emerged from an historical moment of a great linguistic and cultural synthesis, Müller’s gorgeous, mind-bending and altering upgrades of Shakespeare mark our present crisis-moment of linguistic and cultural discombobulation, if not disintegration.” - Tony Kushner, playwright“Heiner Müller’s unmistakable voice—ferocious and brilliant, brutal and profoun — burns through in pitch-perfect translations. Macbeth and Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome are the perfect Shakespearean vehicles for Müller’s vision of the bloody twentieth century. These plays are not just great theatre—and they are great theatre—they are indispensable documents of European culture.” - Oskar Eustis, artistic director, The Public Theater“Heiner Müller’s plays, astonishing in their punch and poetry, are imbued with muscularity, richness and theatricality. His influence on the field is palpable and PAJ’s publications of brilliant translations will help to ensure that Müller’s wide-open vision of the theatre will proliferate. We urgently need his combination of the political, personal and aesthetic in our current culture.” - Anne Bogart, artistic director, Siti Company“A new volume of Heiner Müller’s coruscating, deeply damaged performance prose/ poetry arrives just in time for further chapters of the continued degradation and decline of the West. His theatre pieces take on galling new dimensions as democracies all over the world are in crisis and citizens of Arab countries pour into the streets to demand self-determination.… Heiner Müller was a connoisseur of tyranny. The violence and the decay are already in the language, and thus his rendezvous with Shakespeare.… After the fire, there is space for new growth in an old forest." - Peter Sellars, director

About the AuthorHEINER MÜLLER is widely regarded as the most important German-language playwright since Bertold Brecht. His Hamletmachine is considered one of the great plays of the end of the twentieth century. Müllers´s plays are not merely adapted translations but texts that follow the narrative of the originals only to a degree and are new plays in their own right.Carl Weber is a director and translator who early in his career worked as an assistant director to Bertolt Brecht and actor at the Berliner Ensemble. He has directed plays in major theatres in the U.S., Europe and Canada. Weber has also translated the work of Peter Handke, Franz Xaver Kroetz and several PAJ Publications titles by Heiner Müller, including Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University.Paul David Young is a recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award. His plays have been produced at MoMA PS1, Marlborough Gallery, the Living Theatre, Lion Theatre, Kraine Theater, the Red Room, and at the Kaffileikhusid (Reykjavik). A Fulbright Scholar in Germany, he graduated from Yale College, Columbia Law School, and New School for Drama. His critically acclaimed In the Summer Pavilion is being made into a feature film. He is a Contributing Editor at PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art and writes for Art in America.

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