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A classic of the German stage adapted as a monologue. Though written in 1837 Woyzeck is widely regarded as the first Expressionist play due to its splintered and fragmentary nature. Here it is presented in a new form.
Author : Howard Colyer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1326482955
A classic of the German stage adapted as a monologue. Though written in 1837 Woyzeck is widely regarded as the first Expressionist play due to its splintered and fragmentary nature. Here it is presented in a new form.
Author : Michael Ewans
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Georg Büchner (1813-37) left Woyzeck unfinished at his death. It is one of the most remarkable dramas ever written in any language, and since its publication in 1879 and its first performance in 1913 it has influenced almost every significant movement in European theatre. This book presents a new, accurate and actable English translation, based on the German edition by Werner Lehmann. It also includes an introduction devoted to the dramatic style of Woyzeck, the criteria for a reconstruction and a translation, and the play's production demands; and a theatrical commentary on each scene, devoted to the problems of staging the play and the ways in which each scene can be realized in production.
Author : Karoline Gritzner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1317332989
'Everyone's an abyss. You get dizzy if you look down.' -- Woyzeck Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck was left unfinished at the time of its author’s death in 1837, but the play is now widely recognised as the first ‘modern’ drama in the history of European theatre. Its fragmentary form and critical socio-political content have had a lasting influence on artists, readers and audiences to this day. The abuse, exploitation, and disenfranchisement that Woyzeck’s titular protagonist endures find their mirror in his own murderous outburst. But beyond that, they also echo in the flux and confusion of the various drafts and versions in which the play has been presented since its emergence. In this fresh engagement with a modern classic, Gritzner examines the revolutionary dimensions of Büchner’s political and creative practice, as well as modern approaches to the play in performance.
Author : Georg Büchner
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573692550
"Eric Bentley's adaptation of the classic drama. Sacrificed to powers larger than himself, Woyzeck suffers at the hands of a corrupt system, and ultimately ends in tragedy." --
Author : Georg Büchner
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Arranged marriage
ISBN : 0809032309
Leonce and Lena: There are two imaginary countries: the Kingdom of Popo and the Kingdom of Pipi. Prince Leonce of the Kingdom of Popo and Princess Lena of the Kingdom of Pipi have had their political marriage arranged.
Author : David G. Richards
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781571132208
This is the first extensive survey and analysis of the criticism of Woyzeck from the nineteenth century to the present."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : James Crighton
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Dramatist Georg Buchner was a qualified medical doctor, primarily a neurologist, fascinated by psychiatry, then in its infancy. This study evaluates Buchner's portrayal of insanity in relation to the medical opinion of his time, and to contemporaneous literary treatments of the same subject in German. It provides a wide range of documentary evidence unfamiliar to literary scholars to reveal the full originality and accuracy of Buchner's insights.
Author : Georg Büchner
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1408135604
This is your rhetoric translated. These wretches, these executioners, the guillotine are your speeches come to life. You have built your doctrines out of human heads... Why should an event that transforms the whole of humanity not advance through blood? 1794: the French Revolution reaches its climax. After a series of bloody purges the life-loving, volatile Danton is tormented by his part in the killing. His political rival, the driven, ascetic Robespierre, decides Danton's fate. A titanic struggle begins. Once friends who wanted to change the world, now one stands for compromise the other for ideological purity as the guillotine awaits. A revolutionary himself, George Büchner was 21 when he wrote the play in 1835, while hiding from the police. With its hair-raising on-rush of scenes and vivid dramatisation of complex, visionary characters, Danton's Death has a claim to be the greatest political tragedy ever written. In his newly-revised translation, Howard Brenton captures Büchner's exhilarating energy as Danton struggles to avoid his inexorable fall.
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 1982
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Author : Georg Buchner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,77 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0140445862
Collected in this volume are dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast. Also included are selections from Buchner's letters and philosophical writings.