Influences
The German dramatist Bertolt Brecht adapted The Recruiting Officer as Trumpets and Drums in 1955. Thomas Keneally wrote a novel, The Playmaker, based on the staging of this play by the First Fleet. That novel was adapted into a play, Our Country's Good, in 1988, by Timberlake Wertenbaker. Both works deal with the nature and merits of punishment, rehabilitation and theatre.
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“Whoever influences the child’s life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child’s future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)
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