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Mother Courage and Her Children is an anti-war play by Bertolt Brecht that was written in 1939 and first performed in 1941. The German title of the play is Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder. A modernist play comprising what might be considered a set of allegorical tales lifted over a thirty-year span, it defies certain expectations of drama, focusing less on action and events than on delivering its messages about war, human conflict, and human nature.

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