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Title: Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht ISBN: 0-8021-3082-8 Publisher: Grove/Atlantic Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Futile.
Comment: "Mother Courage and Her Children" is a repugnant play. With odious characters, a misguided plot, and pitiable dialogue, it's a marvel this play has survived the times. I would hate to see the play performed - pure torture. A waste of time, and I do not recommend.
Rating: 3
Summary: Mother Courage and her dead children
Comment: I found this play, although interesting, to fully satisfy the alienation that Brecht intended to place upon his audience. It was somehow very difficult to feel any really emotion except disdain, and perhaps hatred, towards Mother Courage herself, and this was not helped by her continual hipocracy and mecurial nature. I would have prefered something perhaps slightly more aimed at providing a satisfying read (or show) for the audience, and somehow found "Mother Courage" rather depressing and horrid. She is a symbol for everything wrong with the world and I hope that I never come across anyone of similar moral or ethical values.
Rating: 5
Summary: Go ahead and feel
Comment: Saying that Brecht didn't want his plays to evoke an emotional response is an extreme oversimplification of his theories. He just didn't want the emotional response to overwhelm the intellectual response and remove the audience's capacity to judge the work objectively. In this play, we have a heroine who is not a heroine. We understand her, but we never empathize with her. Consequently, the interdependence of war and economy is illuminated without making the reader wallow in excessive emotion. Yes, we do feel strongly when Kattrin is beathing her drum, but that feeling is not what the audience leaves with at the end of the play.
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Title: The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ISBN: 1559702532 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett ISBN: 0802130348 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim, John Willett ISBN: 1559702524 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Galileo by Bertolt Brecht ISBN: 0802130593 Publisher: Grove/Atlantic Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht, Eric Bentley ISBN: 0816635277 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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