Brecht Collected Plays : Round Heads & Pointed Heads ; Fear & Misery of the Third Reich ; Senora Carrar's Rifles ; Trial of Lucullus ; Dansen ; How Much Is Your Iron?
Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht's classic plays from the 1930s 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 Unde
eBook, English, 2015
Bloomsbury Publishing UK, London, 2015