Man equals man ; and The elephant calf / Bertolt Brecht ; translated from the German by Gerhard Nellhaus ; edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.

Contributor:

Nellhaus, Gerhard.

Willett, John, 1917-2002.

Manheim, Ralph, 1907-1992.

Standardized Title:

Mann ist Mann. English

Language:

English

German

Physical Description:

xvii, 138 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Arcade paperback Ed.

Other Title:

Elephant calf

Place of Publication:

New York : Arcade Pub., 2000.

Summary:

Set in British colonial India, Man Equals Man presents the forcible transformation of a civilian, Galy Gay, into the perfect soldier. Using Kiplingesque imagery, Brecht explores personality as something that can be dismantled and reassembled like a machine, in a parable that the critic Walter Kerr credited with a "curious foreshadowing of the art of brainwashing." This edition also includes The Elephant Calf, which was originally part of the main play.

This translation by Gerhard Nellhaus (and by Brecht himself, who made his own English version of the first scene) has been equipped by the editors, John Willett and Ralph Manheim, with Brecht's own notes and relevant texts as well as with an extensive editorial commentary on the genesis and variant versions of the play.

Contents:

Man Equals Man: The transformation of the porter Galy Gay in the military Cantonment of Kilkoa during the year nineteen hundred and twenty five 1

The Elephant Calf: An interlude for the foyer 77

Notes and Variants / Brecht 91

The Man equals Man song

Press release

Epic sequence of events

Two paragraphs

Introductory speech (for the radio)

Dialogue about Bert Brecht's play Man equals Man

Notes to the 1937 edition

On looking through My First Plays (v)

1. Evolution of the play 109

2. Notes on individual scenes 115.

Contains:

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Elefantenkalb. English. 2000.

Elephant calf.

ISBN:

1559705019

OCLC:

42923618