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Published in Methuen Drama''s Modern Classics series, this edition features an introduction and extensive notes and textual variants.

In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. 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.

Considered by many to be one of the greatest anti-war plays ever written and Brecht''s masterpiece, the play is a powerful example of Epic Theatre and Brecht''s use of alienationeffect to focus attention not on individual characters but on theissues of the play. This edition published in Methuen Drama''s Modern Classics series offers a full introduction as well as Brecht''s own notes and textual variants, setting it apart from all other editions available in the English language. The play is presented in John Willett''s trusted translation.

''One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century'' (Observer).

Published in Methuen Drama''s Modern Classics series in a trusted translation by Ralph Manheim and John Willett, this edition features extensive notes and commentary including an introduction to the play, Brecht''s own notes on the play, a full appendix of textual variants, a note by composer Kurt Weill, a transcript of a discussion about the play between Brecht and a theatre director, plus editorial notes on the genesis of the play.

Published in Methuen Drama''s Modern Classics series, this edition features an introduction and extensive notes and textual variants.

Published in Methuen Drama''s Modern Classics series, this edition features an extensive introduction, Brecht''s own notes on the play and a full appendix of textual variants. It is the standard critical edition of the work in an acclaimed translation by James and Tania Stern with W. H. Auden.

Written during 1929 and 1930, years of far-reaching political and economic upheaveal in Germany and the period of Brecht''s most sharply Communist works, these short plays show an abrupt rejection of most of the trappings of conventional theatre.The Lehrstücke are spare and highly formalized pieces intended for performance by amateurs, on the principle that the moral and political lessons contained in them can best be taught by participation in an actual production. There is nothing in the drama of the twentieth century to match the precision of their language and the economy of their theatrical technique.