“One of the greatest plays of our time.” —Richard Gilman, Commonwealth

“Mother Courage is a black corrosive comedy that almost alone among twentieth-century plays approaches the purga­tive power of a major tragedy.” —Time

“In its humor, irony, and truth, it is a work to welcome and cherish.” —The New York Times

Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg, Germany, in 1898. One of the most influential dramatists of our time, he is best known for his classic plays The Threepenny Opera, Galileo, and Mother Courage and Her Children, as well as many others. He died in Berlin in 1956.