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Brecht Collected Plays: 5: Life of Galileo; Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
savaging's review
5.0
The 5 stars are for the play Mother Courage and Her Children. The Life of Galileo, also in this volume, is a fine story about science and religion. But Mother Courage is spectacular.
The play takes place during the 30 Years War, a pointless and protracted bloodbath between Catholics and Protestants. Mother Courage makes a living as a small-beans war profiteer. She is powerful and dirty and cruel and cynical and beautiful and loves her children. She is maybe my favorite character from any play.
She sings at the end, still tugging along her cart:
The new year’s come. The watchmen shout.
The thaw sets in. The dead remain.
Wherever life has not died out
It staggers to its feet again.
The play takes place during the 30 Years War, a pointless and protracted bloodbath between Catholics and Protestants. Mother Courage makes a living as a small-beans war profiteer. She is powerful and dirty and cruel and cynical and beautiful and loves her children. She is maybe my favorite character from any play.
She sings at the end, still tugging along her cart:
The new year’s come. The watchmen shout.
The thaw sets in. The dead remain.
Wherever life has not died out
It staggers to its feet again.
peregrine22's review
4.0
to be completely honest i read 1/5th of the book and it was only the mother courage play for ib lit but i had to mark the book as completely read anyways #fake
mother courage was very interesting though at first i hated it then i hated it in the middle but i overall like it and have a lot to unpack about the characters i might be more of a play person than i thought
mother courage was very interesting though at first i hated it then i hated it in the middle but i overall like it and have a lot to unpack about the characters i might be more of a play person than i thought
lnatal's review against another edition
3.0
From BBC radio 3 - Drama on 3:
An early Bertolt Brecht play in which two men join in a deadly struggle for survival.
An early Bertolt Brecht play in which two men join in a deadly struggle for survival.
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