Mother Courage and Her Children Mother Courage and Her Children
Modern Classics

Mother Courage and Her Children

Bertolt Brecht and Others
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Publisher Description

In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part with her livelihood - the wagon. The Berlin production of 1949, with Helene Weigel as Mother Courage, marked the foundation of the Berliner Ensemble.



Considered by many to be one of the greatest anti-war plays ever written and Brecht's masterpiece, the play is a powerful example of Epic Theatre and Brecht's use of alienation

effect to focus attention not on individual characters but on the

issues of the play. This edition published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series offers a full introduction as well as Brecht's own notes and textual variants, setting it apart from all other editions available in the English language. The play is presented in John Willett's trusted translation.



'One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century' (Observer).

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2015
February 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
176
Pages
PUBLISHER
Methuen Drama
SELLER
Bookwire Gesellschaft zum Vertrieb digitaler Medien mbH
SIZE
6.6
MB
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