The complete plays : together with other prose writings / Georg Büchner ; edited and introduced by Michael Patterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Büchner, Georg, 1813-1837.

Contributor:

Patterson, Michael.

Series:

Methuen paperback

Methuen's world dramatists

Methuen's world dramatists.

A Methuen paperback.

Standardized Title:

Selections. English. 1987

Language:

English

German

Physical Description:

xiii, 306 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Methuen, [1987]

Summary:

New titles in the Methuen World Classics series -- collected volumes of plays by major dramatists that span the repertoire of world theatre from the ancient Greeks to the 20th Century. Critical introductions and chronologies included in each volume.

George Buchner (1813-37) was acknowledged by figures as divergent as Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht to be the great precursor of modern theater. This volume contains contemporary translations of all his plays.

Contents:

Danton's death / translated by Howard Brenton and Jane Fry

Leonce and Lena / translated by Anthony Meech

Woyzeck / translated by John Mackendrick

The Hessian courier ; Lenz ; On cranial nerves ; Selected letters / translated by Michael Patterson.

Notes:

Plays translated by Howard Brenton, et al.; other prose writings translated by Michael Patterson.

Bibliography: page xiii.

Contains:

Büchner, Georg, 1813-1837. Correspondence. English. Selections. 1987.

ISBN:

0413140903

OCLC:

18384736