num_pages: 192
description: Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti comprises some of the best comedy that Bertolt Brecht wrote for the theater and contains one of his great characters. For his complexity and vitality, Mr. Puntila ranks on a par with Brecht's indelible Galileo and Mother Courage. A hard-drinking landowner, Puntila suffers from a split when drunk, he is friendly and humane; when he sobers up, he is intolerable - ruthless, surly, and self-centered. Oscillating between these two poles, he plays havoc with his workers, his women, his daughter's marriage, and the loyalty of his sardonic chauffeur and valet, Matti.
language: English
title: Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti
titlecomplete: Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Drama, German Literature, School, Literature, Classics
ratings_count: 402
publisher: Methuen Drama