- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Grove Pr (1991)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0802130828
- ISBN-13: 978-0802130822
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.6 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 82 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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- #75 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Drama > Continental European
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Spring, 1624. In Dalarna, the Swedish Commander Oxenstierna is recruiting for the campaign in Poland. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Go ahead and feel,
By A Customer
This review is from: Mother Courage and Her Children (Paperback)
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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Response to Noah Lambert's review,
By Molly McBride (St. Paul, MN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mother Courage and Her Children (Paperback)
Brecht doesn't want emotion because that is Brechtian theater. He thought that in order for a play to invoke social change, it needed to be clear to the audience, that the audience needed to learn something. Emotions, Brecht felt, clog the mind and only feed the brain sentiment, not rational thought. Mother Courage and Her Children is, quite obviously, an anti-war play. Brecht wants you to see that war makes criminals out of everyone, even mothers. He wants you to love Mother Courage while you hate her so that the emotion is cancelled out and you are only left with the thoughts of her actions and why they were wrong. If you want a play to read or perform that is challenging, amazing, and intellectual all at once, this is the way to go. I performed this and I was forever changed.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A GREAT PLAY,
By A Customer
This review is from: Mother Courage and Her Children (Paperback)
I can only assume that the previous reviewer choose not to look at the matieral from a critical viewpoint, and because of that saw only what was on the outside of this play. Also why would Brecht not want emotion? I'll stop questing this person and get on to the genius of Brecht. The play is genius, and (after playing in it) I would say its theme is very relevant, and furthermore the play is entertaining to see, and read. So if a production is going on in the neighborhood I would recommend going to see it. BYE
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