Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt
Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative
editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.
Volume One of Brecht's Collected Plays contains Brecht's first
performed stage works. Baal is inspired by Brecht's student life in
Augsburg and follows the life of a young poet on the rocky road to
inspiration; Drums in the Night was written in response to Brecht's
experience as a medical orderly in the aftermath of the First World
War; and In the Jungle of Cities, set in Chicago, covers the
downfall of a family that has moved from the prairies to the jungle
of the big city - award-winning in its day, it was described by a
leading German daily as the play that 'has given our time a new
tone, a new melody, a new vision'.
This volume also includes The Life of Edward II of England, a
ballad-like adaptation of Marlowe's original, and five one-act
plays The Beggar or the Dead Dog, Driving Out The Devil, Lux in
Tenebris, The Catch and A Respectable Wedding in which the
bourgeois proceedings take a hilarious turn for the unseemly.
The translators are Jean Benedetti, Eva Geiser and Ernest
Borneman, Richard Grunberger, Michael Hamburger, Gerhard Nellhaus,
Peter Tegel and John Willett. The translations are ideal for both
study and performance. The volume is accompanied by a full
introduction and notes by the series editor John Willett and
includes Brecht's own notes and relevant texts as well as all the
important textual variants.
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