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Brecht started work on the play in Denmark in March 1939 on the basis of an earlier sketch Die Ware Liebe (1930), but stopped in Sweden in September. Completed in Finland, May–August 1940, the play was worked over again in January 1941. ‘it gave me more trouble than any other play ever did’ (Aj., 1, 120: 29.6.40). The first performance was in Zurich on 4 February 1943. Music by Paul Dessau was written in 1947–8 and first used in an American performance in 1948.1 The Berliner Ensemble production by Benno Besson with Katrin Reichel in the lead opened on 5 October 1957.
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© 1978 Alfred D. White
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White, A.D. (1978). The Good Person of Szechwan. In: Bertolt Brecht’s Great Plays. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03278-5_6
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