Plays

by Bertolt Brecht

Published December 1960
The latest in the series presenting translations of Brecht's most popular and frequently performed plays, This volume includes two plays from the 1940s, "Schweyk in the Second World War", which transposes Hasek's "Good Soldier" to the Prague of Hitler and Heydrich, and "Mr Puntila and his Man Matti", with a collection of "Lehrstucke", the short didactic plays written in the period around 1930.