Mother Courage And Her Children: A Chronicle of the Thirty Years' War

132 Pages·12.22 MB·English

by  Bertolt Brecht

BY BERTOLT BBECHT
ENGLISH VERSION BY ERIC BENTIEV
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WORKS OF BERTOLT BRECHT
The Grove Press Edition
General Editor: Eric Bentley
Translators
Lee Baxandall
Eric Bentley
Martin Esslin
N. Goold-Verschoyle
H. R. Hays
Anselm Hollo
Christopher Isherwood
Frank Jones
Charles Laughton
Carl R. Mueller
Desmond I, Vesey
Previously Published
Baalf A Man^s A Man and The Elephant Calf
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Edward U: A Chronicle Play
Galileo
The Good Woman ofSetzuan
The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays
The Jungle ofCities and Other Plays
Manual ofPiety
The Mother
Selected Poems ofBertolt Brecht
Seven Plays by Bertolt Brecht
Threepenny Novel
The Threepenny Opera
The Visions ofSimone Machard
(with Lion Feuchtwanger)
BERTOLT BRECHT
MOTHER COURAGE
AND HER CHILDREN
A Chronicle of the Thirty Years* War
English version by
ERIC BENTLEY
Complete and
unabridged edition
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Acknowledgment
I have been at work on the translating of Mother Courage
since 1950. I have acknowledged the help I received in
making the first two versions of it that I brought out. For
this, the complete text, I received further help and counsel
from Dr. Hugo Schmidt.
1963

CONTENTS
Who Is Mother Courage? 9
MotherCourage 23
Editorial Notes 113
Author's Notes 115
Appendix 121