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Mother courage and her children, a chronicle of the Thirty Years' War, Bertolt Brecht ; English version by Eric Bentley

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Mother courage and her children, a chronicle of the Thirty Years' War, Bertolt Brecht ; English version by Eric Bentley

Language

eng

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dramas

Main title

Mother courage and her children

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23941258

Responsibility statement

Bertolt Brecht ; English version by Eric Bentley

Sub title

a chronicle of the Thirty Years' War

Summary

Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, Mother Courage and Her Children is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling--'Mother Courage'--an itinerant trader, as she pulls her wagon of wares and her children through the blood and carnage of Europe's religious wars

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