Woyzeck / Georg Büchner ; translated by John MacKendrick ; commentary and notes by Laura Martin ; series editors: Sara Freeman, Jenny Stevens, Chris Megson and Matthew Nichols.
Written in 1836, Woyzeck is often considered to be the first truly modern play. The story of a soldier driven mad by inhuman military discipline and acute social deprivation is told in splintered dialogue and jagged episodes, which are as shocking and telling today as they were when first performed, almost a century after the author's death, in Munich in 1913--Back cover.
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