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Product Description: This volume contains some of the more controversial and personal works produced by Turrini, who has come to be recognized today as one of the leading Austrian dramatists. The plays, Shooting Rats, Infanticide, Death and the Devil, and The Siege of Vienna treat contemporary social conditions and problems in Austria: alienation from the consumer society, the loss of humanity, and the quest for redemption in a morally corrupt world...read more

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In this study, Weales provides the fullest and most distinguished analysis to date of Odets both as a playwright and celebrity, and traces the confusion and pain in the conflict of the two selves. What emerges from this critical biography, rooted in the social and political context in which Odets wrote, is a portrait of a troubled man and a creative playwright, the body of whose work can stand alongside the best that the American Theatre has produced.