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''Watch on the Rhine'' is play by Lillian Hellman that premiered in 1941. The play's "peculiar combination of drawing-room comedy in a genteel southern home with sinister corruption of the Nazi regime in Europe," in one estimation, "made for a unique and powerful drama." It won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. ==Plot== Setting: The living room of the Farrelly country house, about twenty miles from Washington, D.C., in late spring, 1940.〔 For the past seventeen years, the German-born engineer Kurt Muller and Sara, his American wife of twenty years, have lived modestly in Europe and raised three children. He has been deeply involved in anti-Fascist activities in Spain and Germany. The Mullers and their children (Joshua, Babette, and Bodo) are visiting Sara's wealthy relatives, the Farrellys, her brother David and mother Fanny, in Washington. Sara tells the Farrellys she and her family hope to live peacefully in the U.S. The Farrellys have another houseguest, Teck de Brancovis, an impoverished Romanian count "with good manners and odious character"〔 who has been conspiring with the Germans while living in Washington. He searches the Mullers' bedroom and in a locked suitcase discovers a gun and $23,000 intended to finance underground operations in Germany. The Mullers learn that Max Freidech, a member of the resistance, has been arrested in Germany. Because Freidech once rescued Kurt from the Gestapo, Kurt plans to return to Germany to assist Max and those arrested with him. Teck threatens to expose Kurt's plans to the Nazis unless he is paid $10,000 to keep silent. Kurt kills Teck. David and Fanny agree to help him escape capture by the American police. Kurt has been gone for months and has not contacted his family. His son Joshua announces he plans to search for his father as soon as he turns eighteen. Sara, distraught at the possibility of losing her son as well as her husband, resolves to be brave when the time comes for Joshua to leave. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Watch on the Rhine (play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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