Trumpets and Drums

Trumpets and Drums

"Trumpets and Drums" is an adaptation by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of an eighteenth-century English Restoration comedy by Farquhar, "The Recruiting Officer".

A Synopsis

Plume, the recruiting officer, who has arrived from London, is informed by his Sergeant Kite about the state of the market for recruits and love. Recruiting is going badly, but Victoria, the justice's daughter, who a year earlier had been in pigtails, has been visiting a girl put in the family way by Plume. Plume gives his friend the shoe manufacturer, Worthy, a word of advice in matters of the heart and in return Worthy offers him a handsome commission on boots, which Worthy needs soldiers to fill. [1]

Works cited

* Willett, John. 1959. "The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects." London: Methuen. ISBN 0413 34360 X.1 "Trumpets and Drums." Samuel French, Inc. 18 Dec 2007 .

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