The Garden Party and Other Plays     Grove Press New York

Contents

The Memorandum
Translated by Vera Blackwell

The Increased Difficulty of Concentration
Translated by Vera Blackwell

Audience (Conversation)
Translated by George Theiner

Unveiling (Private View)
Translated by Jan Novak

Protest
Translated by Vera Blackwell

Mistake
Translated by George Theiner

Zahradni slavnost (The Garden Party) ® Vaclav Havel, 1963; English translation ® Vera Blackwell, 1969
Vyrozumeni-Protokoly (The Memorandum) ® Vaclav Havel, 1966; English translation ® Vera Blackwell, 1967, 1993
Ztizena moznost soustredeni (The Increased Difficulty of Concentration) ® Vaclav Havel, 1968; English translation © Vera Blackwell, 1976
Audience (Audience or Conversation) ® Vaclav Havel, 1975; English translation ® George Theiner, 1976
Vernisaz (Unveiling or Private View) ® Vaclav Havel, 1975; English translation ® Jan Novak, 1986
Protest (Protest) ® Vaclav Havel, 1978; English translation ® Vera Blackwell, 1984
Chyba (Mistake) ® Vaclav Havel, 1983; English translation ® George Theiner, 1983

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First published in Great Britain in 1992 as Selected Plays 1963-83 by Faber and Faber Limited
First Grove Press edition, September 1993

Published simultaneously in Canada
Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Havel, Václav. [Plays. Selections. English]
The garden party and other plays / Vaclav Havel: 1st Grove Press ed.
ISBN 0-8021-3307-X

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