
Woyzeck: Full Text and Introduction
Georg Buchner

Georg Buchner
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding.Woyzeck is one of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre. A modern classic that remains frighteningly relevant today.Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a provincial German town, is bullied by his superiors and starved by the regiment's doctor in the name of scientific experiment. His only pleasures in life are his lover Marie and their innocent young son. But when W...
| Autor | Georg Buchner |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Methuen Drama |
| Páginas | 88 |
| Publicación | 1979 |
| Idioma original | 🇬🇧 EN |