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Brecht Collected Plays: 6: Good Person of Szechwan; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Mr Puntila and his Man Matti (World Classics)

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by Bertolt Brecht


  * ‘The Big Rug’, from 170 Chinese Poems by Arthur Waley.

  * See the Chronological Table at the end of the play.

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  The Good Person of Szechwan first published in this translation in Great Britain by Methuen in

  hardback 1962; in paperback 1965; new edition 1985

  Translation copyright for the play and texts by Brecht © Bertolt-Brecht-Erben 1985

  Original work entitled Der gute Mensch von Sezuan © Bertolt-Brecht-Erben / Suhrkamp Verlag 1955

  The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui first published in this translation in Great Britain by

  Eyre Methuen Ltd in hardback and paperback 1981

  Translation copyright for the play and texts by Brecht © Bertolt-Brecht-Erben 1981

  Original work entitled Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui © Bertolt-Brecht-Erben/Suhrkamp Verlag 1957

  Mr Puntila and his Man Matti first published in this translation in Great Britain by Methuen

  London Ltd inhardback and paperback 1987.

  This translation is a revised version of one originally published in Methuen’s Modern Plays series in 1977.

  Translation copyright for the play and texts by Brecht © Bertolt-Brecht-Erben 1987

  Original work entitled Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti © Bertolt-Brecht-Erben/Suhrkamp Verlag 1951

  Introduction and editorial notes © 1981 by Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1985,

  1987 by Methuen London Ltd, 1994 by Methuen Drama

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