Brecht, Bertolt

Chronicles Mother Courage as she trails the armies back and forth across Europe selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon during the thirty years war.

Contains two plays that point out the imperfections of the social order and the dilemmas of the human condition by German playwright and theorist Bertolt Brecht.

Contains the text of a play based upon the life of seventeenth-century physicist Galileo Galilei, which explores the ethical dilemma he faced when confronted with a choice between his life's work and the demands of the Inquisition.

A translation of twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht's work in which a seventeenth-century woman, "Mother Courage, " accompanied by her children, pulls a trading wagon throughout wartorn Europe and becomes a symbol of human suffering and endurance.