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Mother Courage and Her Children: Modern Plays Paperback – 1 August 2006

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'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)'
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    176 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    METHUEN DRAMA
  4. Publication date
    1 August 2006
  5. Dimensions
    13.11 x 1.41 x 19.89 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0413412903
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0413412904
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"One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century." --Observer

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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) grew to maturity as a playwright in the frenetic years of the twenties and early thirties, with such plays as The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny and The Mother. He left Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933, eventually reaching the United States in 1941, where he remained until 1947. It was during this period of exile that masterpieces such as The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle were written. Shortly after his return to Europe in 1947, he founded the Berliner Ensemble, with whom he created a number of legendary productions of his own plays. He died in 1956 and his Centenary was celebrated in 1998.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ METHUEN DRAMA; 1st edition (1 August 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0413412903
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0413412904
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.11 x 1.41 x 19.89 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
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  1. Ralph Manheim

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    Ralph Frederick Manheim (April 4, 1907 – September 26, 1992) was an American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian. He likened translation to acting, the role being "to impersonate his author".

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    Tom Leonard (22 August 1944 – 21 December 2018) was a Scottish poet, writer and critic. He was best known for his poems written in the Glaswegian dialect of Scots, particularly his Six Glasgow Poems and The Six O'Clock News. His work frequently dealt with the relationship between language, class and culture.

    He is survived by his wife and two sons who are in the process of trying to make as much of his work available again in print or via kindle. Read his poem below to see why.

    (NB: Tom's version of Mother Courage is https://www.amazon.co.uk/Courage-Children-Bertolt-Leonard-Paperback/dp/B00XDGPEFO - Amazon seems to show other versions here)

    A life

    There were some who seemed to spend their lives “being a writer”.

    And he had spent his life not being a writer.

    That way lay safety. An invisibility. A freedom.

    Those he met saw him as “that writer” and would never understand that this was not how he had chosen to see himself.

    He accepted their seeing him as “that writer” almost with a kind of irony.

    But then he began to accept that he was a writer.

    It was a matter of language and consciousness. The link between the two.

    He had to choose to accept the responsibility of the outer that he had preserved from himself, that he had left to the perception of others.

    For as he grew older he stood in a separate relationship to himself.

    He was able to body himself conceptually as a totality.

    And though he had never been a storyteller, he saw that he had been telling a story all his life.

    It became important to him that somebody heard the story, now that he realised he had been telling it.

    Yet all that remained to be told was that he had been telling it.

    And all that remained was the need for the last understanding, the sign that someone had heard the story, and the teller was no longer necessary.

    Tom Leonard

    2012

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marcos americo renaux
5.0 out of 5 stars boa tradução
Reviewed in Brazil on 5 March 2019
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Uma boa tradução para o inglês desta bela peça de Bertolt Brecht. Tradução fidedigna. vale a leitura, uma boa compra.
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Suzanne D. CohenAmazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Considered by many as a classic antiwar play written just at the beginning of WWII.
Reviewed in the United States on 3 October 2018
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We read this aloud at our book club meeting and discussed its relevance to today. It is set in the 30 years war in the 1600's. Since we are going on 18 years in Afghanistan it was appropriate. Mother Courage has a resilience and drive to survive however she can and reacts to the changes in the war. It is not an easy read and can be very bitter but very emotional as her children suffer.
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Bhaswar Misra
5.0 out of 5 stars Mother Courage is considered by some to be the greatest play of the 20th century
Reviewed in India on 5 January 2015
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Must read book (drama). Mother Courage is considered by some to be the greatest play of the 20th century, and perhaps also the greatest anti-war play of all time. Mother Courage is one of nine plays that Brecht wrote in an attempt to counter the rise of Fascism and Nazism. In response to the invasion of Poland by the German armies of Adolf Hitler in 1939, Brecht wrote Mother Courage in what writers call a "white heat"—in a little over a month. Following Brecht's own principles for political drama, the play is not set in modern times but during the Thirty Years' War of 1618–1648. It follows the fortunes of Anna Fierling, nicknamed "Mother Courage", a wily canteen woman with the Swedish Army who is determined to make her living from the war. Over the course of the play, she loses all three of her children, Swiss Cheese, Eilif, and Kattrin, to the same war from which she sought to profit.
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Brad
5.0 out of 5 stars Anna Fierling forever!
Reviewed in the United States on 9 February 2021
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Mother Courage and Her Children is a Brecht masterpiece and this edition includes many editorial notes and essays by Eric Bentley, who has collaborated as an editor on multiple Brecht works. And in one single pocket-sized paperback. It's a work of biting antiwar arguments, especially the opening speeches with the idea that you don't even know what your own name is until there's a draft for a war and you appear on the draft lists. When peace breaks out it is terrible for business. It's set in the 1618-48 Thirty Years War, but Brecht's truths are timeless. As then, so now.
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Shuchitra Ganguly
5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in India on 25 June 2021
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Good book. Came in proper packaging
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