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- ISBN 9781854595874
- Weight: 95g
- Dimensions: 104 x 159mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2007
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen (its original title, conventionally translated as La Ronde) was written in Vienna in 1896/7 but, because of its scandalous subject-matter, was not performed in full until 1920. It has been adapted often (notably by David Hare as The Blue Room), and filmed several times (including by Max Ophuls, 1950; Roger Vadim, 1964; and Otto Schenk, 1973).
