• Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Mother Courage & Her Children

  • Aug 26 2024
  • Length: 53 mins
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Mother Courage & Her Children

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  • Our ninth Great Political Fiction is Bertolt Brecht’s classic anti-war play, written in 1939 at the start of one terrible European war but set in the time of another: the Thirty Years’ War of the 17th century. How did Brecht think a three-hundred-year gap could help us to understand our own capacity for violence and cruelty? Why did he make Mother Courage such an unlovable character? Why do we feel for her plight anyway? And what can we do about it?


    Tomorrow: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged


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