Mother Courage and Her Children | Essays and Criticism
- Mother Courage: Hero and Antihero
In this essay, Petrusso discusses the character of Mother Courage as both a hero and an antihero.
- The Danger of Empathy in Mother Courage
In the following critical essay, Woodland discusses the manner in which audiences identify with Mother Courage’s continual suffering, examining Brecht’s dramatic technique and the ways in which it, quite contrary to the playwright’s intentions, serves to make his title character such a sympathetic one.
- Brecht versus Broadway
In this 1963 essay, Brustein examines Brecht’s political motivations in creating Mother Courage and Her Children. Finding the play to be a prime example of the playwright’s pacifist views, the critic asserts that the work is a ‘‘Marxist indictment of the economic motives behind international aggression.’’
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