Three Plays: Santa Cruz; Now They’re Singing Again; Rip van Winkle

“Santa Cruz, Now They’re Singing Again” and “Rip Van Winkle” (staged and published in their original German in the 1940s) are given their definitive translation into English by Michael Bullock. Two of the plays appear in this volume for the first time in English. Along with Jean Paul Sartre and Thomas Mann, Max Frisch, the great Swiss playwright and novelist, is one of the pre-eminent European thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century. These three plays show Frisch at his most innovative in exploring the challenges posed by modernity to the creation of an authentic self.