20th CenturyImaginative Literature

Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children

A canteen woman pulls her wagon through the Thirty Years' War, trying to profit from it.

✎ Being written
Volume
60 of the 1990 set
Author
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
Work
Mother Courage and Her Children written 1939; staged 1941

Ideas: War and its causes Wealth, money and markets Family and home

No public-domain English translation. Find it at a library: Open Library or WorldCat.

A note for parents: A play about war's cost to a family; for older readers.

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