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Mother Courage and Her Children: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Modern Classics)
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Product Description Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This unique bilingual edition allows students to compare the original German text with a translation by one of the world's leading playwrights, Tony Kushner. In this play, a 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. The English translation by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner is inventive and vigorous, making Brecht's epic drama accessible to the 21st century reader. Contemporary language and humour make it the perfect English version to elucidate and compare with the original text. This edition also includes a critical introduction and commentary notes on particular words and phrases. Review a"The Threepenny Opera" and "Mother Courage" are the great plays of our time.a aLillian Hellman "The Threepenny Opera" and "Mother Courage" are the great plays of our time. Lillian Hellman About the Author Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Tony Kushner is James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish relations at University of Southampton, UK. He has written widely on the British Jewish experience, the history of migration and refugees; Holocaust studies; history and heritage. He has authored 9 books and edited or co-edited a further 13 volumes, including the classic The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination: A Social and Cultural History (1994). His most recent books are The Battle of Britishness: Migrant Journeys since 1685 (2012) and Journeys from the Abyss: The Holocaust and Forced Migration from the 1880s to the Present (2017). He is co-editor of the journal Patterns of Prejudice and deputy editor of Jewish Culture and History.
