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Plays Volume 2 (Paperback)
Georg Kaiser; Translated by B.J. Kenworthy, H.F. Garten, Elizabeth Sprigge
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"This second volume of plays by Georg Kaiser contains five plays
ranging from his early work through the time of his prolific
maturity in the 1920s to his last period as an exile in
Switzerland, where he died in 1945. David and Goliath is set in
Denmark and deals with the power of money over men. The President,
set in France, is ironical in tone and revolves around a lottery
and, once again, the power of money. The Flight to Venice was
written at the height of the Expressionist movement in 1922, and is
one of the principal plays of the period. One Day in October is
highly complex, using nineteenth-century French literary
personalities to make points about literary creation and the
relationship between art and life. The final play, The Raft of the
Medusa, takes its title from Gericault's painting, and concerns the
regeneration of man overlaid with the pessimism of the European
struggle."
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Plays Volume 1 (Paperback)
Georg Kaiser; Translated by B.J. Kenworthy, Rex Last, J.M. Ritchie
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"These five plays provide an excellent introduction to Kaiser's
vision of the regeneration of man, which he illustrated in his
works by a total paring down of detail, penetrating to the core of
the matter and revealing man's true potential. In From Morning to
Midnight the cashier, downtrodden victim of the capitalist system,
turns bank robber in order to test the power, freedom and happiness
that money can bring. His grand gesture of setting himself and
others free turns into an odyssey of disillusion and ends in his
violent death. The unique stage technique employed by Kaiser is as
challenging today as it was when the play was first performed. The
Burghers of Calais has always been considered Kaiser's greatest
play and the "classic" of Expressionist drama. In it, Kaiser
exploits the non-naturalistic technique of Expressionism. The play
embraces vast expansiveness and total concentration, stylized
gesture and lengthy monologues."
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