Brecht Collected Plays: 4 Round Heads & Pointed Heads; Fear & Misery of the Third Reich; Senora Carrar's Rifles; Trial of Lucullus; Dansen; How Much Is Your Iron?

<p>Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht's classic plays from the 1930s<br><br>Volume 4 of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political and cultural history - as well as in Brecht's own life. <i>Round Heads and Pointed Heads</i>, based on Shakespeare's <i>Measure for Measure</i>, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in the Germany Brecht had to leave in 1933. <i>The Trial of Lucullus</i>, a starkly pacifist text originally written in response to a commission from Swedish radio, portrays the Roman general tried by the Underworld for his military triumphs. <i>Fear and Misery of the Third Reich</i>, unique in Brecht's work, consists of some thirty short scenes of life under the Nazis between 1933 and 1938, designed for use by groups in exile. <i>Señora Carrara's Rifles</i> is based on J.M. Synge's <i>Riders to the Sea</i>, but relocated by Brecht in the Spanish Civil War. Also included are two one-act plays, <i>Dansen</i> and <i>How Much is Your Iron?</i>, minor works designed for amateurs in Scandinavia, where the Brechts lived till spring 1941.<br><br>The volume includes an introduction and notes by Tom Kuhn and John Willett, as well as Brecht's own notes on the texts.</p>