Uniform title | Gute Mensch von Sezuan. English |
Summary |
Brecht's famous parable pivots around a moral paradox - that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. Through the sharply split personality of the central character Shen Teh / Shui Ta Brecht points to the impossibility of living anything like a 'good' life in a corrupted and persistently exploitative world. 'The Good Person of Szechwan' was first performed in Zurich in 1943. |
General note | This translation previously issued in print: London: Methuen Drama, 2009. |
General note | Translated from the German. |
Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 5, 2014). |
Issued in other form | Print version : 9781408100073 |
Genre/form | Drama. |
Standard identifier# |
10.5040/9781408167366.00000051 |