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Brecht Collected Plays: 5

Life of Galileo; Mother Courage and Her Children
By Bertolt Brecht
Series: World Classics
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This fifth volume in Bertolt Brecht's Collected Plays features two of his most renowned works: The Life of Galileo and Mother Courage and her Children. Galileo explores the tension between free inquiry and oppressive ideology through the trials of the famous astronomer facing the Inquisition. Mother Courage tells the story of a resilient woman navigating the devastation of the Thirty Years' War, clinging to her canteen wagon even as the conflict claims her children.
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Ideal for readers interested in classic theatre, political drama, and thought-provoking explorations of morality and human resilience. Suitable for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of Brecht's influential works.

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Brecht Collected Plays: 5

This volume brings together two of Brecht's most studied and performed plays: Life of Galileo and Mother Courage and Her Children together with full editorial apparatus and Brecht's own notes and textual variants.

This volume brings together two of Brecht's most studied and performed plays: Life of Galileo and Mother Courage and Her Children together with full editorial apparatus and Brecht's own notes and textual variants.

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This fifth volume in the Collected Plays series brings together two of Brecht's plays, The Life of Galileo and Mother Courage and her Children.

Galileo examines the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology, through the story of the great astronomer and his persecution by the Inquisition. It contains one of Brecht's most human and complex central characters.

The eponymous heroine of Mother Courage is another of the playwright's great creations. As the Thirty Years' War rages around her, claiming her children one by one, she nevertheless clings to her canteen wagon, the source of her livelihood.

Series: World Classics

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780413699701

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 November 1995

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Methuen Drama

Contributors:

  • Edited by John Willett
  • Edited by Ralph Manheim
  • Translated by John Willett

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 27.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 504g

Pages: 448

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Arts & Culture Bertolt Brecht Non-Fiction Series: World Classics

About the Author

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose work has had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. His plays and dramatic theory are central to the study of modern theatre.

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