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Brecht Collected Plays: Four: Round Heads and Pointed Heads, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, Señora Carrar's Rifles, The Trial of Lucullus, and two one-act plays (Methuen World Classics)
Bertolt Brecht
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Paperback. Volume four of "Brecht's Collected Plays" contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political and cultural history - as well as Brecht's own life. The plays included tackle the Nazi race policy and life under Hitler, the Spanish Civil War and pacifism. Editor(s): Kuhn, Tom. Translator(s): Kuhn, Tom; Willett, John; Sauerlander, Wolfgang; Hays, H. R.; Kastner, Martin; Kastner, Rose. Series: World Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 32. Weight in Grams: 378.
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 Underworld for his ... Read more
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 Underworld for his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
A&C Black
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Series
World Classics
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780413704702
SKU
V9780413704702
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About Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and writing have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera and, while exiled from Germany and living in the USA, such masterpieces as The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage
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