Mr. Puntila and His Man MattiArcade Pub., 1997 - 155 Seiten Long unavailable in this country, Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti comprises some of the best comedy that Bertolt Brecht wrote for the theater and contains one of his great characters. For his complexity and vitality, Mr. Puntila ranks on a par with Brecht's indelible Galileo and Mother Courage. A hard-drinking landowner, Puntila suffers from a split personality: when drunk, he is friendly and humane; when he sobers up, he is intolerable - ruthless, surly, and self-centered. Oscillating between these two poles, he plays havoc with his workers, his women, his daughter's marriage, and the loyalty of his sardonic chauffeur and valet, Matti. This translation is by John Willett, who with Ralph Manheim is the editor of Brecht's complete dramatic work in English. The joint editors have equipped this volume with a critical introduction and notes, along with Brecht's own notes and variants and the short story on which the play was based. |
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... Hella Wuolijoki asking her to sent them an invitation which would help them to enter her country . There they hoped to catch a ship to America from the arctic port of Petsamo before the next winter set in . Wuolijoki knew her prime ...
... Hella Wuolijoki asking her to sent them an invitation which would help them to enter her country . There they hoped to catch a ship to America from the arctic port of Petsamo before the next winter set in . Wuolijoki knew her prime ...
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... Hella Wuolijoki had made up her mind to sell the estate , which wartime transport difficulties were making increasingly difficult to run . Brecht had already turned to other projects - a play derived from Yamamoto Yuzo's Chink Okichi ...
... Hella Wuolijoki had made up her mind to sell the estate , which wartime transport difficulties were making increasingly difficult to run . Brecht had already turned to other projects - a play derived from Yamamoto Yuzo's Chink Okichi ...
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... coffee cup halted in mid - air , and this time her smile had more edge to it . ' You're quite wrong , Markus , if you think I'm going to turn our house upside down for your foreign A Finnish Bacchus by Hella Wuolijoki.
... coffee cup halted in mid - air , and this time her smile had more edge to it . ' You're quite wrong , Markus , if you think I'm going to turn our house upside down for your foreign A Finnish Bacchus by Hella Wuolijoki.
Inhalt
A Finnish Bacchus by Hella Wuolijoki | 100 |
Texts by Brecht | 110 |
Notes on the Berliner Ensemble Production | 118 |
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aquavit Attaché Aunt Hanna bath hut Berliner Ensemble better bottle Brecht CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ chauffeur CHEMIST'S ASSISTANT coffee cook cows crayfish CRUZ The University Curt Bois d'you Daddy daughter doctor door drink drunk drunkenness engagement party Exit fair copy farmer Punttila father fiancées Fina Finland Finnish follows forest girl give goes hear Hella Wuolijoki Helsinki hiring fair human Iso-Heikkilä judge Kalle kitchen Klinckmann Kurgela labourer Laina Lammi landowner laugh LAWYER legal alcohol Lisu look marry MATTI milk MILKMAID Miss Eva Miss Hanna morning never night once PARSON PARSON'S WIFE Paul Dessau play Puntila Hall realise RED-HEADED scarlet fever scene script sitting SLY-GROG EMMA song stand story Surkkala talking Tavasthus Tavastland TELEPHONIST tell there's thing told University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA village W-B version WAITER WEEDY What's women yard