Von Horvath: Two Plays: Don Juan Comes Back from the War; Figaro Gets Divorced - Paperback
Von Horvath: Two Plays: Don Juan Comes Back from the War; Figaro Gets Divorced - Paperback
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by Ödön Von Horváth (Author), Ian Huish (Translator), Christopher Hampton (Translator)
Don Juan Comes Back from the War, Figaro Gets Divorced
Two modern classics by Austrian dramatist, Ödön von Horváth. Hampton's Don Juan Comes Back from the War was first performed at the Royal National Theatre. Figaro Gets Divorced, in which an aristocratic couple and their two servants are on the run from a revolution, premiered at London's Gate Theatre.Author Biography
Odon von Horvath (1901-38) was an influential Austro-Hungarian dramatist and novelist. His first plays depicted the coruption of contemporary society; Sladek The Black Militia Man caused a riot at its premiere in 1929. He was already an exile from Hitler's Germany when the two plays in this volume were written. His experience as an outside observer is reflected in their themes of displacement and exile.
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