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Three Plays: Baal / A Man's a Man / The Elephant Calf
Three Plays Baal / A Man's a Man / The Elephant Calf Author:Bertolt Brecht, Eric Bentley (Editor) The story of a charming, ruthlessly amoral young poet, Baal (1918) is Brecht's first play and "a passionate acceptance of the world in all its sordid grandeur." A Man's A Man (1926), Brecht's first excursion into "epic theatre," traces the terrifying transformation of the sweet, good Galy Gay int... more »o a bloodthirsty "human fighting machine." Galy reappears in the brief, sardonic Elephant Calf, a sort of coda. Powerful stage works in their own right, these three early plays also provide crucial insights into Brecht's dramatic techniques and preoccupations before his decisive embrace of Marxism in 1928.« less