Mother Courage : a chronicle of the thirty years war (1618-1648)
A single mother and her grown children. A team now. The fathers have come and gone and are barely remembered. These are her children. By contrast, Matthew (27; 56) identifies an anonymous woman as "the mother of Zebedee's children." We'll talk about it, for what it may mean. More important is the fact that this group is headed by a dominant female. Let's see if it makes a difference. Demian, as you'll remember, was the product of matriarchy, as it were, and seemed to be none the worse for it. It wasn't even worth mentioning. Fifty years later, Edgar Wibeau of Plenzdorf's The New Sorrows of Young W. (1972), a modern version of Goethe's bestselling novel Werther written 200 years earlier, and one of the most brilliant pieces of theatre post-Brecht, does find it worth mentioning. He is "sick & tired" of being paraded as living proof that "a single mother can successfully raise a male."
| Author: | Herbert Deinert |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1147622 |
| URL: | http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/hd11/MotherCourage.html |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 08.02.2010 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| SWD-Keyword: | Bertolt / Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder; Brecht |
| HeBIS PPN: | 223949841 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 832 Deutsche Dramen |
| Sammlungen: | GiNDok |
| BDSL-Klassifikation: | BDSL-Klassifikation: 17.00.00 20. Jahrhundert (1914-1945) > 17.18.00 Zu einzelnen Autoren |
| Note: | Herbert Deinert (Professor of German Studies, Emeritus) Department of German Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853. Zusätzliches Material findet sich unter: http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/hd11/ |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
