In Mother Courage and Her Children, considered one of Bertolt Brecht's greatest plays and one of "the great plays of our time" (Lillian Hellman), a lone woman, Anna Fierling ...

"... Set in the Soviet Caucasus after the Second World War. To celebrate the settlement of a land dispute, the peasants stage a long parable play which explores, through the ...

Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and ...

Dramatizes Galileo's conflict with the church over his assertion that the Earth revolves around the sun.

Satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic through the love story between Polly Peachum and "Mack the Knife" Macheath.

Three plays deal with authoritarian dogma, a gangster parable of Hitler's rise to power, and a clever judge's difficult decision

Updated edition of The Cambridge Companion to Brecht, introducing new voices and themes.

In one of his best-known plays and parables, Brecht depicts the myriad faces an empoverished Chinese prostitute is forced to wear in order to survive the increasingly evil ...

An accessible study of the production history of Mother Courage and Her Children, a key twentieth-century play.