Gerhart Hauptmann's "Before Daybreak"
A Translation and an Introduction
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39842/1/9781469657547_WEB.pdf
Bauland, Peter
"Before Daybreak", the first important drama of German naturalism, was also the first play of Gerhart Hauptmann, the most significant naturalist of the theater. This translation by Peter Bauland (originally published in 1978) is the first colloquially convincing English version that captures the several levels of diction in this seminal modern drama. It is preceded by a critical introduction by the translator which places the play in historical context and discusses its form and content.
German studies; Literature; Theatre and Drama
10.5149/9781469657547_Hauptmann
The University of North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill, 1978
National Endowment for the Humanities
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures,