Dec 22, 2009

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail | What Do I Read Next?

Mother Courage and Her Children, an antiwar play by German playwright Bertolt Brecht was originally published in 1949 following World War II. Like The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Brecht's tragic play is set in an earlier historical era, in this case seventeenth-century Europe, during the multi-national Thirty Years' War. Brecht's play depicts the tragic figure of Mother Courage, whose attempts to make money from the war inadvertently kill all of her children....