A respectable wedding
By: Bertolt Brecht ; translated by Jean Benedetti
Contributors: Benedetti, Jean, translator; Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Work titles: Kleinbürgerhochzeit
Description: In 'A Respectable Wedding' (1919) Brecht ruthlessly ridiculed the apparent perfection, false morality, sentimentality and commonness of the petite bourgeoisie. The world of illusionary happiness of the petite bourgeoisie, which reaches its peak with a wedding, collapses in front of the audience as quickly as the groom's handmade furniture, which breaks even before the wedding reception finishes. 'A Respectable Wedding' was the only one of Brecht's early one act plays to be staged during his life. It premiered in Frankfurt in 1926.
Notes: Previously issued in print: in Collected plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 1998.

Translated from the German.