Word: crackbrains
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Into Wozzeck, Büchner worked all his tense, young pity for the downtrodden. Wozzeck is a poor bewildered soldier, stationed in a small German city in peacetime. His captain bullies him, a crackbrain doctor experiments on him, his mistress philanders with the drum-major, who has chest like a bull and a beard like a lion." Twenty-six terse, stark scenes tell the tragedy. Wozzeck stabs his mistress, drowns himself. At the end, while the news is gibbered through the streets, their child rides about on his hobbyhorse...
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