Collected playsVol. 4 - v. 4 : Round and Pointed Heads, Fear and Misery, Carrar's Rifles, Trial of Lucull Dansen, How Much i

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: Brecht developed this into a powerful political allegory on Nazi race policy and conditions in the Germany which he had to leave in 1933.

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.

SENORA CARRAR'S RIFLES is a short play about the Spanish Civil War, based on J.M.

Synge's RIDERS TO THE SEA. First staged in Paris in 1938. The other two short plays, DANSEN and HOW MUCH IS YOUR IRON?, were minor works designed for amateurs in Scandinavia, where the Brechts lived till spring 1941.

THE TRIAL OF LUCULLUS is a radio play, in which the Roman general is tried by the Underworld for his military triumphs.