Driving Out a Devil | |
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Written by | Bertolt Brecht |
Original language | German |
Genre | One-act farce |
Setting | Bavaria |
Driving Out a Devil ( German: Er treibt den Teufel aus) is an early one-act farce by the 20th-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. [1] It was written in prose, probably in 1919, and was first published in volume 13 of Brecht's Stücke. [2] The play charts the attempts of a self-confident and manipulative Bavarian peasant boy to outwit the vigilant parents of a girl of his village. [3] Ronald Hayman suggests that this play dramatises most clearly Brecht's own ability to influence people. [4]
Driving Out a Devil | |
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Written by | Bertolt Brecht |
Original language | German |
Genre | One-act farce |
Setting | Bavaria |
Driving Out a Devil ( German: Er treibt den Teufel aus) is an early one-act farce by the 20th-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. [1] It was written in prose, probably in 1919, and was first published in volume 13 of Brecht's Stücke. [2] The play charts the attempts of a self-confident and manipulative Bavarian peasant boy to outwit the vigilant parents of a girl of his village. [3] Ronald Hayman suggests that this play dramatises most clearly Brecht's own ability to influence people. [4]