Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays Includes: In Search of Justice; Informer; Elephant Calf; Measures Taken; Exception and the Rule; Salzburg Dance of Death,9780802150981

Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays Includes: In Search of Justice; Informer; Elephant Calf; Measures Taken; Exception and the Rule; Salzburg Dance of Death

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ISBN13: 9780802150981
ISBN10: 0802150985
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-03-28
Publisher(s): Grove Press
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Bercht was one of the most influential dramatist of the twentieth cnetury and today. Bentley is a playwright, critic, translator, and editor.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7(2)
The Jewish Wife
9(10)
In Search of Justice
19(22)
The Informer
41(16)
The Elephant Calf or, The provability of any and every contention
57(18)
The Measures Taken
75(34)
The Exception and the Rule
109(36)
Appendix: Salzburg Dance of Death 145(14)
Appendix: What Was He Killed For? 159(14)
Bibliographical Notes 173

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