The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising A German Tragedy

Grass, Gunther

ISBN 10: 0140481206 / ISBN 13: 9780140481204

Edité par Penguin, 1972

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Translated by Ralph Manheim, with an Introductory Address by the author. 122pp, the edges browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers. Internally very clean and tight. A play set in East Germany in 1953.

N° de réf. du vendeur 15621

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising A German Tragedy
• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date de parution: 1972
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0140481206
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780140481204
• Reliure: Mass Market Paperback
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Theatre
  • Literature G - P

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In his first full-length play, Günter Grass takes Bertolt Brecht, the foremost modern German dramatist, as his key figure. On 17 June, 1953, the workers in East Germany rise in rebellion against oppressive measures, but their revolt lacks a voice and a leader. In the East German theatre of which he is the director, the famed Communist poet and playwright, Bertolt Brecht (named 'the boss' in the play), is shown rehearsing his adaption of Shakespeare's Coriolanus. The revolution spills over into the stage happenings as a workers' delegation requests that 'the Boss' lend the authority of his voice and fame to their demands for justice and freedom. The intellectual is shown in a tragic dilemma: reasoning keeps him from active commitment until it is too late. He becomes guilty of betraying the workers and his own self.