Product Description

The fifth volume in the Collected Plays series brings together two of Brecht's best-known plays, Life of Galileo and Mother Courage and Her Children. Life of Galileo, which examines the conflict between free inquiry and official ideology, contains one of Brecht's most human and complex central characters. Mother Courage is also one of Brecht's great creations: she clings to her livelihood-her canteen wagon-in this "chronicle play of the Thirty Years War," while one by one she loses her children to the war.

This volume, edited and introduced by John Willett and Ralph Manheim, gives full translations of each of the plays and includes Brecht's own notes and all the most important textual variants.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #281027 in Books
• Published on: 1995-01-01
• Original language: German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 389 pages