Kaspar (play)

Kaspar & Other Plays
First English edition
AuthorPeter Handke
GenreDrama
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
Published in English in 1967
Publication placeAustria
ISBN0809015463

Kaspar is a play written by Austrian playwright Peter Handke. It was published in 1967. It was Handke's first full-length drama and was hailed by Max Frisch as the "play of the decade".[1] It depicts "the foundling Kaspar Hauser as a near-speechless innocent destroyed by society’s attempts to impose on him its language and its own rational values."[2]

  1. ^ Kaspar and Other Plays, published by Hill & Wang, translated by Michael Roloff, New York, 1989
  2. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, Biography of Peter Handke (Austrian Writer)