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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Author: Bertolt Brecht, James Stern (Translator), Tania Stern (Translator), W. H. Auden (Translator)
Presents a fable which uses the ancient Chinese tale of the test of the chalk circle to illuminate the author's vision of an alterable present and the hope of a future golden age. — Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in wh...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781559702539
ISBN-10: 1559702532
Publication Date: 8/1/1994
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Arcade Publishing
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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