Brecht on Theatre : The Development of an Aesthetic by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (Translator)
This selection of Bertolt Brecht's critical writing charts the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics over four decades.
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht, Eric Bentley (Translator)
Play by Bertolt Brecht, written in German as Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder: Eine Chronik aus dem Dreissigjahrigen Krieg, produced in 1941 and published in 1949. Composed of 12 scenes, the work is a chronicle play of the Thirty Years' War and is based on the picaresque novel Simplicissimus (1669) by Hans Jakob Grimmelshausen. In 1949 Brecht staged Mother Courage, with music by Paul Dessau, in the Soviet sector of Berlin. The plot revolves around a woman who depends on war for her personal survival and who is nicknamed Mother Courage for her coolness in safeguarding her merchandise under enemy fire. One by one her three children die, yet she continues her profiteering.
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