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Dantons Tod
Georg Buchner
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R803
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Woyzeck (Paperback)
Georg Buchner; Translated by Eric Bentley
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R369
Discovery Miles 3 690
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Drama / Characters: 14 male, 4 female
Sacrificed to powers larger than himself, Woyzeck is one of
drama's first anti-heroes. He serves a German captain and makes
money by allowing a doctor to experiment on him, but his deeper
morality leads him to a tragic end.
Written in 1836, Woyzeck is often considered to be the first truly
modern play. The story of a soldier driven mad by inhuman military
discipline and acute social deprivation is told in splintered
dialogue and jagged episodes, which are as shocking and telling
today as they were when first performed, almost a century after the
author's death, in Munich 1913. This edition contains introductory
commentary and notes by Laura Martin from the University of
Glasgow. METHUEN DRAMA STUDENT EDITIONS are expertly annotated
texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic
repertoires. A well as the complete text of the play itself, this
volume contains: * A chronology of the play and the playwright's
life and work * an introductory discussion of the social,
political, cultural and economic context in which the play was
originally conceived and created * a succinct overview of the
creation processes followed and subsequent performance history of
the piece * an analysis of, and commentary on, some of the major
themes and specific issues addressed by the text * a bibliography
of suggested primary and secondary materials for further study.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag
tredition aus Hamburg veroffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION
CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu
einem Grossteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhaltlich.
Mit TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende
Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als
gedruckte Bucher zu verlegen - und das weltweit Die Buchreihe dient
zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Forderung der Kultur. Sie tragt so
dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit geraten
Georg Buchner is regularly considered the father of modern German
drama, and Woyzeck was his most influential work. Beneath the utter
simplicity of its basic story, there are complex themes of human
motivation, victimisation, guilt, class structure, and the meaning
and nature of existence. This edition incorporates the recent
research on the text, and provides full Introduction and Notes.
En esta edicion se recogen las dos obras mas significativas del
dramaturgo aleman Georg Buchner: La muerte de Danton, drama sobre
la Revolucion Francesa, y Woyzeck, drama inconcluso, calificado
como el primer drama social de la literatura aleman. Georg Buchner,
con excepcion de Holderlin, es uno de los escritores alemanes mas
dificiles de situar en la evolucion historica de la literatura
alemana, pero esta considerado como uno de los grandes dramaturgos
alemanes.
The complete collection of Buchner's plays in one volume Buchner
was acknowledged by figures as divergent as Antonin Artaud and
Bertolt Brecht to be the forefather of modern theatre. On his death
at the age of 23, he left behind some outstanding dramatic works:
his historical drama, Danton's Death, 'the most remarkable first
play in European culture' (Guardian), translated here by Howard
Brenton and Jane Fry; the innovatory tragedy, Woyzeck, translated
by John Mackendrick; and the absurdist comedy, Leonce and Lena,
translated by Anthony Meech. He also left a powerful short story,
Lenz, an important account of his research into cranial nerves, and
his revolutionary pamphlet, The Hessian Courier. All these are
collected in this one volume and supplemented with a selection of
his remarkable letters.
The life of Georg Buchner was short, intense, and tragic—and
extremely significant for the development of modern drama. His
three plays, Danton’s Death, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck, were
greatly ahead of their time in their penetrating dramatic and
psychological treatment. They served as an impetus for contemporary
schools of drama as different as the Theatre of the Absurd of
Ionesco and the Epic Theatre of Brecht.
lso presented in this only complete volume of Buchner in English
are his two powerful prose pieces, The Hessian Courier and his
short story, Lenz.
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