and action.

The language of the plays in this volume is again almost wholly
dialectic. The linguistic difficulties are especially great in _The Rats_
where the members of the Berlin populace speak an extraordinarily
degraded jargon. In the translation I have sought, so far as possible, to
differentiate the savour and quaintness of the Silesian dialect from the
coarseness of that of Berlin. But all such attempts must, from their very
nature, achieve only a partial success. The succeeding volumes of this
edition, presenting the plays written in normal literary German, will
offer a fairer if not more fascinating field of interpretation.

LUDWIG LEWISOHN.




DRAYMAN HENSCHEL




_LIST OF PERSONS_


DRAYMAN HENSCHEL.

MRS. HENSCHEL.

HANNE SCHAeL (_later MRS. HENSCHEL_).