Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soldiers_(play) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Soldaten_(Drama)

Release date is 2004-11-01

Thanks are given to Delphine Lettau for finding a huge collection of ancient German books in London

"Die Soldaten" by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz is a bourgeois tragedy written in 1776. Set in French Flanders, the play follows Marie Wesener, a merchant's daughter who abandons her engagement to pursue a relationship with a young officer. When he discards her after a brief affair, she faces social ruin and is branded an outcast by society. The drama critiques the class divide and the careless behavior of soldiers toward middle-class women in eighteenth-century society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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