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Title: Mother Courage and Her Children
Condition: New
EAN: 9781408111512
ISBN: 9781408111512
Edition: Parallel text edition
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 16/11/2010
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 15mm
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Translator: Tony Kushner
Contributor: Tom Kuhn (Edited by), Tony Kushner (Translated by)
Language: German
Subtitle: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
ISBN-10: 1408111519
Description: Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This unique bilingual edition allows students to compare the original German text with a translation by one of the world's leading playwrights, Tony Kushner. 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 - the wagon. The Berlin production of 1949, with Helene Weigel as Mother Courage, marked the foundation of the Berliner Ensemble. The English translation by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner is inventive and vigorous, making Brecht's epic drama accessible to the 21st century reader. Contemporary language and humour make it the perfect English version to elucidate and compare with the original text. This edition also includes a critical introduction and commentary notes on particular words and phrases.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Weight: 202g
Genre: Literary Criticism
Book Series: Modern Classics
Release Year: 2010

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