This factual volume brings to a conclusion more than 35 years of work on the Travelling Theatre Edition as part of the Editions of German Literature series. A comprehensive and detailed introduction presents the most important research aspects together with notes on the sources and a selected bibliography and illustrations. The main part of the volume is given over to commentaries on sections of the plays from the five volumes, consisting of an introductory characterization of the relevant text followed by a line-by-line commentary on the problems of content and language posed by the individual passages.