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...Caucasian Chalk Circle was written during Brecht's exile during the early '40s, and was based upon Klabund's adaptation of a Chinese folk tale (The Chalk Circle), well known to the Berlin theater public twenty years before. Drifting gradually from the original version, Brecht crafted an original story of his own, by creating Azdak, a village scribe, who as an exradical retains a blend of disenchantment and idealism...
...Circle of Chalk (produced by the Studio Theatre of the New School for Social Research) was adapted by the late German poet Klabund (Alfred Henschke) from a 13th-Century Chinese classic. (In 1925 it was a hit in Berlin with Actress Elisabeth Bergner, later in London with Hollywood Veteran Anna May Wong, and it appeared briefly in Manhattan.) It tells of a teahouse girl who marries a mandarin, only to fall afoul of his jealous No. 1 wife.This witch poisons the mandarin, bribes a judge to convict the girl of the murder and the theft of her own baby...
...Author. "Klabund" is the pen name of Alfred Henschke, a German author still in his early 30's. He has spent his few years in studying at the universities of Berlin, Munich, Lausanne. Besides, he is a great traveler?spends only his winters in Berlin and the rest of the year roaming the world. The spirit of the man who wrote this strange book about Peter the Great is best expressed in his own words: "I must go on fighting with a hot blade the sounding battles within...
...PETER THE CZAR?Klabund (translated by Herman George Scheffauer)?Putnam...
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