The Jewish wife and other short plays
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-19561992
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Total copies: 1
These six plays represent the best and most humorous of Brecht's shorter works. The Jewish Wife is from the Fear and Misery in the Third Reich cycle of one-act plays, which, along with In Search of Justice and The Informer, chromicles the hardships of life in Nazi Germany. These six plays represent the best and most humorous of Brecht's shorter works. The Jewish Wife is from the Fear and Misery in the Third Reich cycle of one-act plays, which, along with In Search of Justice and The Informer, chromicles the hardships of life in Nazi Germany. The Exception and the Rule, one of Brecht's most popular short works, grimly depicts the consequences of the mutually dependent -- yet inevitable inequitable -- relationship between the priviledged and the poor; it is included here with The Measures Taken and The Elephant Calf. Though all of these ales of horror, ad Eric Bentley calls them, have tragic undertones, they are also infused with farcical absurdities and cosmic irony so characteristic of Brecht's work.
Main title:
The Jewish wife and other short plays / Bertolt Brecht ; English versions by Eric Bentley.
Author:
Edition:
1st Evergreen ed.
Imprint:
New York : Grove Weidenfeld, 1992.
Collation:
172, [2] p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173-174], 2nd group).
Contents:
The Jewish wife.--In search of justice.--The informer.--The elephant calf.--T measures taken.--The exception and the rule.--Appendix: Salzberg dance of death.--Bibliographical notes (p. 159-160).
ISBN:
9780802150981 (alk paper)
Dewey class:
832.912832.912 BRE
LC class:
PT2603.R397
Language:
EnglishGerman
BRN:
604957