Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder. English & German;Mother Courage and her children = Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder / Bertolt Brecht translated and with a preface by Tony Kushner introduction and notes by Charlotte Ryland.

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.
London : Methuen Drama, c2010.
Added to CLICnet on 08/30/2013

Anti-war play written in 1939.
Text in English and German on facing pages preface, introduction, and notes in English.
Subtitles on added t.p.: A chronicle of the Thirty Years’ War = Eine Chronik aus dem Dreißigjährigen Kreig.
This translation first published in Great Britain in 2009 by Methuen Drama. Original work entitled Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, published by Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1949 –T.p. verso.
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 nor the wagon. –Cover p. [4].

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