Brecht Collected Plays

Volume Four of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s. <em>Round Heads and Pointed Heads</em>, based on Shakespeare's <em>Measure for Measure</em>, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in Germany. <em>Fear and Misery of the Third Reich</em> creates a montage of some thirty short scenes, showing ordinary life under the Nazis permeated by suspicion and anxiety. <em>Se</em><em>nora Carrar's Rifles</em> is based on J.M. Synge's <em>Riders to the Sea</em>, relocated by Brecht in the Spanish Civil War. <em>The Trial of Lucullus</em>, a radio play, is a starkly poetic pacifist text, in which the Roman general is tried by the Underworld for his military triumphs. Also included are two one-act plays, <em>Dansen</em> and <em>How Much Is Your Iron?</em></p>

The volume includes an introduction and notes by Tom Kuhn and John Willett as well as variants and additional relevant texts by Brecht. </p>