Man Equals Man
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Man Equals Man or A Man's a Man is a classic play about war and personality by one of the giants of twentieth century drama, Bertolt Brecht. It explores of the theory of equality, and one of Brecht's early plays, part of his glittering Berlin successes. [1]
Set in British colonial India, Man Equals Man presents the forcible transformation of a civilian, Galy Gay, into the perfect soldier. Using Kiplingesque imagery, Brecht explores personality as something that can be dismantled and reassembled like a machine, in a parable that critic Walter Kerr credited with a “curious foreshadowing of the art of brainwashing.” [2]
The same characters exist in the short interlude The Elephant Calf.
In current publication, the Arcade edition was translated from Brecht's final revision in 1954 by Gerhard Nellhaus (and by Brecht himself, who made his own English version of the first scene) . The Bentley translation is based on public domain material of 1926, many years before Brecht finished revising the play. [3]
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- ^ http://www.methuen.co.uk/titles.php/isbn/0413685608
- ^ http://arcadepub.com/book/?GCOI=55970100546120
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