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SECTION 2 WORKS BY BERTOLT BRECHT Methuen publish most of the work. The plays appear in several volumes as <strong>Brecht</strong>: Collected Plays, with more than twenty different translators, all edited by John Willett. • Vol. 1 (Baal, Drums in the Night, In the Jungle of the Cities, The Life of Edward II of England, A Respectable Wedding, The Beggar or the Dead Dog, Driving Out a Devil, Lux in Tenebris, The Catch), 1994. • Vol. 2 (Man Equals Man, The Elephant Calf, The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The Seven Deadly Sins of the Bourgeoisie), 1994. • Vol. 3 (Saint Joan of the Stockyards, The Mother, Lindbergh’s Flight, The Baden- Baden Lesson on Consent, He Said Yes/He Said No, The Decision, The Exception and the Rule, The Horatians and The Curiatians), 1997. • Vol. 4 (Round Heads and Pointed Heads, Dansen, How Much is your Iron? Trial of Lucullus, Señora Carrar’s Rifles, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich), 1998. • Vol. 5 (The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children), 1995. • Vol. 6 (The Good Person of Szechwan, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Mr Puntila and His Man Matti),1994. • Vol. 7 (The Visions of Simone Machard, Schweyk in the Second World War, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Duchess of Malfi), 1994. Volume 8 is not yet in print and Methuen have not yet scheduled its publication. When published, it is likely to contain the following plays: The Days of the Commune; Turandot, Report from Herrnburg; Downfall of the Egoist Johann Fatzer; The Life of Confucius; The Breadshop; The Salzburg Dance of Death. There is also a series of single plays issued as ‘Modern Plays Editions’ and another series issued as ‘Methuen Student Editions’. These vary in content. For instance, the Modern Plays edition of Mother Courage and Her Children (1980) is the same translation as the Student Edition (1983) but it has extremely useful ‘Notes and Variants’, including the text from the Mother Courage Model book, which the Student Edition does not carry. The Student Edition, however, has invaluable notes and commentary for students on meaning, characters, plot, etc., which do not appear in the Modern Plays edition. DRAMA 15