A new paperback edition of Brecht's finest comedy. Translated by John Willett and with an extensive introduction and commentary. Features Brecht's own notes and relevant texts. Brecht is one of the most important dramatists of the twentieth century whose work is studied on every Theatre Studies course.

Written in 1940 during Brecht's exile in Finland, Puntila is one of his greatest creations - to be ranked alongside Galileo and Mother Courage. A hard-drinking Finnish landowner, Puntila suffers from a divided personality: when drunk he is human and humane; when sober, surly and self-centred. The play contains some of the best comedy Brecht wrote for the theatre. This translation by John Willett is accompanied by Brecht's own notes and relevant texts, as well as an extensive introduction and commentary by John Willett and Ralph Manheim, editor's of Brecht's collected plays in English.