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bertolt
[ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (show ipa), 1898–1956, german dramatist and poet.
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pity the country, to paraphrase brecht, that needs literary heroes.
mantel books the booker john sutherland october 5, 2009

and anyway, if brecht did not want us to feel for mother courage, why did he make her so richly shaded and humanly fallible?
brecht’s mercenary mother courage turns 75 katie baker september 9, 2014

along with galileo, it represents brecht at his epic apogee.
brecht’s mercenary mother courage turns 75 katie baker september 9, 2014

remember that satirical brecht line about it being perhaps easier for the government to dissolve the people and elect a new one?
michael tomasky: there will be no saviors for the gop in 2012 michael tomasky february 20, 2012

but does this translate into a reason to ignore the giants of the german canon: goethe, mann, brecht?
what should be your favorite books? benjamin lytal february 12, 2014

brecht placed his merchant-mother in a dark universe of impossible choices.
brecht’s mercenary mother courage turns 75 katie baker september 9, 2014

the fact that most audiences end up feeling some degree of sympathy for mother courage irritated brecht to no end.
brecht’s mercenary mother courage turns 75 katie baker september 9, 2014

still, brecht did manage to do some courageous things during the war—one of them being the writing of mother courage.
brecht’s mercenary mother courage turns 75 katie baker september 9, 2014

when brecht penned these lines, his continent hovered on the precipice of a journey into h-ll.
brecht’s mercenary mother courage turns 75 katie baker september 9, 2014

on some level, brecht meant for mother courage to be an ambivalent figure—he called her “a great living contradiction.”
brecht’s mercenary mother courage turns 75 katie baker september 9, 2014

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bertolt (ˈbɛrtɔlt). 1898–1956, german dramatist, theatrical producer, and poet, who developed a new style of “epic” theatre and a new theory of theatrical alienation, notable also for his wit and comp-ssion. his early works include the threepenny opera (1928) and rise and fall of the city of mahagonny (1930) (both with music by kurt weill). his later plays are concerned with moral and political dilemmas and include mother courage and her children (1941), the good woman of setzuan (1943), and the caucasian chalk circle (1955)