This second volume of Brecht's Collected Plays brings together his two most glittering Berlin successes, The Threepenny Opera and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny; another of his collaborations with Kurt Weill, the supremely ironic ballet libretto The Seven Deadly Sins; his witty exploration of the malleability of human personality, Man equals Man, and its "interlude for the foyer," The Elephant Calf.

Edited and introduced by John Willett and Ralph Manheim, the volume gives full translations of each of the plays and includes notes as well as all the most important textual variants.