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Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage

This best-selling volume contains several of the German author's most controversial dramas, in which he radically questions how culture, myth, art, and social relations create history. Includes: Hamletmachine, Correction, The Task, Quartet, Despoiled Shore,and Gundling's Life.One of the most original theatrical minds of our time, Muller, who resided in East Berlin before his death in 1995, was a frequent collaborator of Robert Wilson.

Genre
literary fiction
Themes
theatre
Setting
1970sgermanycollege
Audience
adult
Length
short · 144 pages
Form
plays

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