Baal, A Man's a Man, and The Elephant Calf

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Baal, A Man's a Man, and The Elephant Calf is written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Grove Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 080213159X (ISBN 10) and 9780802131591 (ISBN 13).

The story of a charming, ruthlessly amoral young poet, Baal (1918) is Brecht's first play and "a passionate acceptance of the world in all its sordid grandeur" (Martin Esslin). A Man's A Man (1926), Brecht's first excursion into "epic theater," traces the terrifying transformation of the sweet, good Galy Gay into a bloodthirsty "human fighting machine." Galy reappears in the brief, sardonic Elephant Calf, a sort of coda. Powerful stage works in their own right, these three early plays also provide crucial insights into Brecht's dramatic techniques and preoccupations before the decisive embrace of Marxism in 1928.