The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, Vol. 1: Social Dramas

Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) was a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912, best known for his 1892 play, The Weavers (Die Weber) which sympathetically portrays a group of Silesian weavers who staged an uprising during the 1840s due to their concerns about the Industrial Revolution. This volume contains The Weavers; Before Dawn (Vor Sonnenaufgang); The Beaver Coat (Der Boberpelz): and The Conflagration (Die rote Hahn).