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Authors/Bertold Brecht/The Good Woman of Setzuan
The Good Woman of Setzuan
Book profileEnglish (United Kingdom)
Book · 1 edition

The Good Woman of Setzuan

Genres
Plays, playscripts, drama · Fiction: literary and general non-genre
2007
first published in English
German
original language
1
edition in English
144
pages

This play, written during Brecht's exile to the United States and set in pre-Communist China, is a parable of a young woman torn between obligation and reality, between love and practicality, and between her own needs and those of her friends and neighbours.

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