''A Respectable Wedding'' is a short

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by the German dramatist

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a p ...

. The German title ''Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit'' literally means ''the petit bourgeois wedding.'' Like other of Brecht’s early works (

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, and ''

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''), ''A Respectable Wedding'' is seen as a critique of

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society. The play includes nine characters: * The Bride's Father * The Bridegroom's Mother * The Bride * The Bride's Sister * The Bridegroom * His Friend * The Wife * Her Husband * The Young Man

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