Life of Galileo
1943 play by Bertolt Brecht
Life of Galileo
Life of Galileo (German: Leben des Galilei), also known as Galileo, is a play by the 20th century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and collaborator Margarete Steffin, with incidental music by Hanns Eisler. The play follows the career of the great Italian natural philosopher Galileo Galilei during the Galileo affair, in which he was prosecuted for heresy by the Roman Catholic Church for the promulgation of heliocentrism. The play embraces themes such as the conflict between dogmatism and scientific evidence, as well as interrogating the values of constancy in the face of oppression. Further themes include the relationship between science and authority, the responsibility of a scientist to the general public, the submissiveness of scientists and common people to authority, and the subversive effect of new scientific ideas on the religious and social order. The play was written in 1938 and received its first theatrical production (in German) at the Zurich Schauspielhaus, opening on the 9th...
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