Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder

This edition offers, in addition to the text of the play with brief explanations in the margins, a timeline of the Thirty Years' War, a timeline of the play's history, its productions, and the film. It also includes the original text of Johann Ludvig Runeberg's ballad "Lotta Svärd," documents of contemporary reception (the world premiere in Zurich in 1941, Brecht's Berlin premiere in 1949), Brecht's self-statements and reactions to the impact, further literature references, as well as detailed explanations of words and concepts.