Arthur Schnitzler

Eric Bentley's adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's classic LA RONDE. "This seems to be Arthur Schnitzler's year in the English-speaking world. In THE BLUE ROOM, we saw all of Nicole Kidman ... in a daring adaptation of one of his most dazzling works for the stage, REIGEN (LA RONDE, ROUND ONE). Ten couples pair up for the ultimate pleasure. One of each continuing with a different partner until in the last scene the prostitute, who has appeared in the first sketch, appears once more." -Peter Gay, The New York Times Book Review "The original play, REIGEN, was kept from the general public by Schnitzler. First, he printed it only privately. Second ... he withheld it from production. In 1920-21 he did allow it to be performed but when the Vienna production resulted in anti-semitic outbursts against the author, he withdrew it once again. He died in 1931 but when I translated REIGEN in the fifties, his son and heir Heinrich still wanted the play withheld, to protect his father's good name and avoid the ugly protests against the show that he thought would inevitably accrue. However, the play was not protected by U S copyright, and I allowed Circle in the Square to produce it. Jos Quintero, as director, had no difficulty showing that this play has little to do with an actress's nudity but much more to do with the Western world's mores and morality, not forgetting that the story is shot through with irony and humor." -Eric Bentley, The New York Times Book Review

Die wichtigsten Werke Arthur Schnitzlers in einem Band: skandalöse Geschichten, abgründige Erkundungen der menschlichen Seele, hellsichtige Reflexionen über die Macht der Sprache. Neben berühmten Texten wie :Reigen9 und :Fräulein Else9 enthält das Lesebuch auch beeindruckende Aphorismen und Betrachtungen, deren Themenspektrum von der Frage nach privatem Glück bis zur Kritik am Ersten Weltkrieg reicht.

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Arthur Schnitzler's famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s. La Ronde is a play of ten scenes, each depicting a couple in a sexual liaison. There are ten characters altogether, each appearing in two adjacent scenes, forming an endless chain of sexual links across all the layers of Viennese society. This edition, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, features a translation by Stephen Unwin and Peter Zombory-Moldovan.

This collection represents Schnitzler's dramatic work from 1886 to 1915 in the most accurate English translation available. Included are the popular ""Roundelay"" and ""Anatol"" (with additional scenes and an alternate ending), as well as the rarely translated works ""Professor Bernhardi"" and ""Hour of Realizing"". These performance translations offer new possibilities for bringing Schnitzler's oeuvre to the contemporary stage.