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Author	Bertolt Brecht
ISBN	1559702524

The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his best-loved and most-performed plays. Based on John Gay's eighteenth-century Beggar's Opera, the play is set in Victorian England's Soho but satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic...

Author	Arthur Schnitzler
ISBN	0141182245

“Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.”


The Bride (1918) by Klimt

It all begins with a confession of sorts as his wife Albertine tells him of a fantasy she had involving a man that she saw on their...

Author	Unknown
ISBN	0140441379

Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a masterpiece of chivalric drama. Siegfried, a great prince of the Netherlands, wins the hand of the beautiful...

Author

Bertolt Brecht

Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her Children" is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling -- "Mother Courage" -- an itinerant trader, as she pulls...

Author	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
ISBN	3150000459

Mit dem 1772 erschienenen und uraufgeführten Drama Emilia Galotti schuf Gotthold Ephraim Lessing eines der bedeutendsten Beispiele für die Gattung des bürgerlichen Trauerspiels. Das Stück, das zu den Schlüsselwerken der Aufklärung und Empfindsamkeit gehört sowie als eines der ersten...

Author	Todd Strasser
ISBN	0440993717

The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.

The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system...

Author	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
ISBN	3150000165

Mit dem 1755 erschienenen und uraufgeführten Drama ''Miss Sara Sampson'' schuf Gotthold Ephraim Lessing das erste bedeutende deutsche "bürgerliche Trauerspiel", in dem nicht mehr die großen "Haupt- und Staatsaktionen", sondern Schicksale von Menschen aus dem "Mittelstand", aus Bürgertum...