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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... village street . Fascinating how many of them are already up . They're irresistible at this hour when they've just crept out from under the feathers , when their eyes are still bright and sinful and the world's still young . He arrives ...
... village street . Fascinating how many of them are already up . They're irresistible at this hour when they've just crept out from under the feathers , when their eyes are still bright and sinful and the world's still young . He arrives ...
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... village , and lo ! the pole evaded the car of so powerful a farmer . The village was a fair size . How could one get hold of a prescription for alcohol ? But Punttila knew his way around . He stopped his car at the first hut he came to ...
... village , and lo ! the pole evaded the car of so powerful a farmer . The village was a fair size . How could one get hold of a prescription for alcohol ? But Punttila knew his way around . He stopped his car at the first hut he came to ...
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... village ' fiancées ' ) . How far the play The Sawdust Princess was complete when Brecht first saw it is not entirely clear . Some commentators think that it was , but Brecht himself referred to it as a draft and in his journal ( entry ...
... village ' fiancées ' ) . How far the play The Sawdust Princess was complete when Brecht first saw it is not entirely clear . Some commentators think that it was , but Brecht himself referred to it as a draft and in his journal ( entry ...
Inhalt
A Finnish Bacchus by Hella Wuolijoki | 100 |
Texts by Brecht | 110 |
Notes on the Berliner Ensemble Production | 118 |
Urheberrecht | |
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