Research Catalog

Title

Mother Courage and her children : a chronicle of the Thirty Years' War / Bertolt Brecht ; translated by Tony Kushner.

Author

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956

Publication

London : Methuen Drama, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kushner, Tony

Description

viii, 104 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"It isn't easy, starting a war, but nothing worthwhile is easy. And once you're in, you're hooked like a gambler, you can't afford to walk away from the crapshoot once you're deep into it." "Mother Courage, one of the most astonishing stage creations of the twentieth century, drags her cart across the battlefields, profiteering from a war that destroys her children, one by one." "This translation by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner is inventive and vigorous, making Brecht's epic drama and its powerful indictment of war accessible to twenty-first century audiences." "Tony Kushner's Mother Courage and her Children premiered at The Delacorte Theater, New York, on 21 August 2006 and was revived at the National Theatre on 16 September 2009"--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder. English

Alternative Title

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder.

Subject

• 1618-1648
• Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 > Drama

Genre/Form

Drama

Note

• "Original work entitled Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder"--T.p. verso.
• "Mother Courage and her children, in this translation, had its first British production in the Olivier auditorium of the National Theatre, London, on 9 September 2009"--P. 5.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781408125755 (pbk.)
• 1408125757 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009529873

OCLC

• 455184061
• SCSB-12634737

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library