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The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays
The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays
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Author: Bertolt Brecht Translated by: Eric Bentley Publisher: Grove Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 176 Pub. Date: 1994 ISBN-10: 0802150985 ISBN-13: 9780802150981
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About the Play:
The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays is a collection of
one-act plays by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Eric
Bentley. 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, chronicles 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
privileged and the poor; it is included here with The Measures
Taken and The Elephant Calf.
Though all of these 'tales of horror', as Eric Bentley
calls them, have tragic undertones, they are also infused with
farcical absurdities and cosmic irony so characteristic of Bertolt
Brecht's work.
About the Playwright:
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. One of the
most influential playwrights of the 20th century, he left Germany in
1933 when Hitler came to power. He lived in the United States for
seven years, settling with his family in Santa Monica and New York
and continuing to work on plays and films. After the war he
returned to Germany, where he
founded the Berliner Ensemble. He is best known for his classic plays
The Threepenny Opera, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her
Children, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle as
well as many others.
Eric
Bentley (1916-2020) was a British-born American drama critic and
translator. He received his BA at Oxford University and PhD at Yale
University. In 2006, he received an Obie award for lifetime
achievement. Throughout his long and distinguished career, he was
perhaps best known as one of the preeminent experts on Bertolt
Brecht.
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