Mother Courage and Her Children (German: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht, with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin. The name is based on its eponymous character, Mother Courage. Four theatrical productions were produced in Switzerland and Germany from 1941 to 1952, the last three supervised or directed by Brecht. Several critics regard the play as the greatest of the twentieth century. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Why is Mother Courage and Her Children set in the Thirty Years' War when Brecht wrote it in 1939?
It is set in the Thirty Years' War because Brecht's principles for political drama kept it out of modern times.
Brecht wrote the play in 1939, in response to the German invasion of Poland, but followed his own principles for political drama by not setting it in modern times. Instead the action takes place during the Thirty Years' War of 1618 to 1648, which involved all the German states, France and Sweden. The canteen woman Anna Fierling, known as Mother Courage, tries to make her living from that war and loses all three of her children to it, and the play's theme is the devastating effects of a European war and the blindness of anyone hoping to profit by it.
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Mother Courage and Her Children...is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin.
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Mother Courage and Her Children (German: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin.
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Mother Courage and Her Children (German: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin. The name is based on its eponymous character, Mother Courage.
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Mother Courage and Her Children...is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht.
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a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht
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