Collected Plays: v.7: Schweyk Second World War: Vol 7 (Modern Plays)

Collected Plays: v.7: Schweyk Second World War: Vol 7 (Modern Plays)

by Bertolt Brecht (Author), JohnWillett (Editor), WilliamRowlinson (Editor), RalphManheim (Editor)

Synopsis

One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century (Observer) Schweyk in the Second World War transposes Hasek's 'good soldier' - the soldier who uses his reputation for idiocy to avoid the frontline and whose crowning glory is to be captured by his own army - to the Prague of Hitler and Heydrich.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 11 Jul 1985

ISBN 10: 041358030X
ISBN 13: 9780413580306

Author Bio
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and writing have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera and, while exiled from Germany and living in the USA, such masterpieces as The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.