The four volumes contain all 23 of Witkiewicz’s plays in English translation, including The Madman and the Nun, The Crazy Locomotive, The Water Hen, The Shoemaker, They, The Pragmatists, Tumor Brainiowicz, Gyubal Wahazar, The Anonymous Work, The Cuttlefish, The Beelzebub Sonata, as well as essays and introductions by translator Daniel Gerould.Volume 4 contents:Past Mastery And Self-Desctructive Form (1922-1925): The Triumph Of NothingnessJan Maciej Karol HellcatThe Madman and the NunThe Crazy LocomotiveJanulka, Daughter of FizdejkoThe MotherThe Beelzebub SonataJettisoning Pure Form (1925-1934): Demythification and TheatricalismThe ShoemakersEpilogueAppendixIllustrationsAcknowledgments & Credits (Sources)BibliographySelected Critical Studies (In English)

The four volumes contain all 23 of Witkiewicz’s plays in English translation, including The Madman and the Nun, The Crazy Locomotive, The Water Hen, The Shoemaker, They, The Pragmatists, Tumor Brainiowicz, Gyubal Wahazar, The Anonymous Work, The Cuttlefish, The Beelzebub Sonata, as well as essays and introductions by translator Daniel Gerould.Volume 4 contents:Past Mastery And Self-Desctructive Form (1922-1925): The Triumph Of NothingnessJan Maciej Karol HellcatThe Madman and the NunThe Crazy LocomotiveJanulka, Daughter of FizdejkoThe MotherThe Beelzebub SonataJettisoning Pure Form (1925-1934): Demythification and TheatricalismThe ShoemakersEpilogueAppendixIllustrationsAcknowledgments & Credits (Sources)BibliographySelected Critical Studies (In English)