Woyzeck
Woyzeck is an unfinished play by German dramatist Georg Büchner, written in 1836–1837 and published posthumously from manuscript fragments in the late 19th century. Written in German, it is regarded as a landmark of European drama and a precursor to naturalism and modernist theatre, noted for its social critique and fragmented form rather than a conventional plot.
The action centers on Franz Woyzeck, a poor soldier in a small German town, who performs menial
Stylistically, Woyzeck is composed of loosely connected scenes without a single, definitive structure, and it employs
Publication and staging history have varied, with editors arranging the fragments into different versions. Since its