Bertolt Brecht - Collected Plays Volume 4 - Round Heads and Pointed Heads & Fear and Misery of the Third Reich & Señora Carrar's Rifles & The Trial of Lucullus & Dansen & How Much Is Your Iron ? ~ Bertolt Brecht - trans John Willett & Tom Kuhn (ed) - HARDBACK *** 50% Discount - Publisher's Price £25.00 - Our Price £12.50 ***
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
Round Heads and Pointed Heads, based on Shakespeare's
Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi
racial policy and conditions in the Germany Brecht had to leave in 1933
The Trial of Lucullus, 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
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, 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
Señora Carrara's Rifles is based on J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea,
but relocated by Brecht in the Spanish Civil War
Also included are two one-act plays, Dansen and How Much is
Your Iron ?, minor works designed for amateurs in Scandinavia, where
the Brechts lived till spring 1941
The volume includes an introduction and notes by Tom Kuhn and
John Willett, as well as Brecht's own notes on the texts
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