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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Author: Bertolt Brecht, Eric Bentley
A play consisting of a prologue and five scenes by Bertolt Brecht, first produced in English in 1948 and in German as Der kaukasische Kreidekreis in 1949. The work is based on the German writer Klabund's play Der Kreidekreis (1924), itself a translation and adaptation of a Chinese play from the Yuan dynasty (1206-1368). Brecht's play is set with...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780394172583
ISBN-10: 0394172582
Publication Date: 7/1987
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Publisher: Grove Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Revised Edition. 4.25"x7". This is a revised English version with an introduction and appendix by Eric Bentley. A play written by the author in California during World War II as the war was ending It has become a classic of world theater. By the author of "Baal," "A Man's A Man and The Elephant Calf," "The Good Woman of Setzuan," "The Mother," "Mother Courage and Her Children," "The Threepenny Opera," and "The Visions of Simone Machard." 144p.


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