EAN: 9781350178533

MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN - BERTOLT BRECH...

This new Student Edition  featuring the classic John Willett translation of the play  includes
an introduction by Katherine Hollander  which explores the following: * Contexts (Thirty Years
War  1618-1648  World War II and exile  sources  influential figures such as Brecht  Margarete
Steffin  Helene Weigel and Karin Michaelis) * Themes (war  nature  capitalism) * Dramatic
devices (epic theatre) * Production history and critical reception * Academic debate (Marxist 
feminist and postmodernist) * Further study Widely regarded as Brecht's best work  Mother
Courage and her Children was written in 1938-9 and received its premiere in Zurich in 1941.
Mother Courage - a canteen woman serving with the Swedish Army during the Thirty Years War
(1618-48) - follows the armies  selling provisions and liquor to the troops. Both her sons die
in the war and her dumb daughter  Kattrin  is mortally wounded as she beats a drum to warn the
town of Halle of an impending attack. Yet  all the while  Mother Courage continues her travels
with her wagon  indomitably businesslike  calculating how she can make material profit from the
war and turn conflict into capital.

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