The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Play

Writers: Bertolt Brecht

Context

NOTE: This guide’s primary reference is Brecht, Collected Plays: Seven, edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim. The text of The Caucasian Chalk Circle was translated by James and Tania Stern, and the songs by W.H. Auden. Eric Bentley’s translation of the play, published by Grove Press differs slightly. Where character names differ, Bentley’s version appears here in parenthesis.

Works Cited

Brecht, Bertolt, John Willett, and Ralph Manheim. Collected Plays: Seven. London: Methuen Drama, 1994. Print.

Brecht, Bertolt, and Eric Bentley. The Caucasian Chalk Circle. New York: Grove, 1947. Print.


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