Mother Courage and Her Children
Author: Brecht, Bertolt
ISBN: 9780413412904
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 01 Aug 2006
Pages: 176 Format: Paperback / softback
'In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. 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. ''One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century'' (Observer)'
ISBN: 9780413412904
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 01 Aug 2006
Pages: 176 Format: Paperback / softback
'In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. 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. ''One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century'' (Observer)'
