Mother Courage and Her Children
Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, Mother Courage and Her Children is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling -- "Mother Courage" -- an itinerant trader, as she pulls her wagon of wares and her children through the blood and carnage of Europe's religious wars. Battered by hardships, brutality, and the degradation and death of her children, she ultimately finds...
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Widely regarded as Bertolt Brecht's best work.New York Times Book ReviewIn its humor, irony, and truth, it is a work to welcome and cherish.
\ Lillian HellmanThe Threepenny Opera and Mother Courage are the great plays of our time.\ \ \ \ \ TimeMother Courage is a black corrosive comedy that almost alone among twentieth-century plays approaches the purgative power of a major tragedy.\ \ \ Richard GilmanOne of the greatest plays of our time. -- Commonweal\ \ \ \ \ New York Times Book ReviewIn its humor, irony, and truth, it is a work to welcome and cherish.\ \ \ \ \ From the Publisher"One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century."—Observer\ \ \ \
