Mother Courage & Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best work a theatrical landmark & 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 & forth across Europe selling provisions & 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 & vigorous making Brecht's epic drama accessible to the 21st century reader Contemporary language & humour make it the perfect English version to elucidate & compare with the original text This edition also
Includes:: a critical introduction & commentary notes on particular words & phrases