Performing Mother Courage, Performing History

Bertold Brecht's 1939 play Mother Courage and her Children opens us to ask how performances enact history, act upon it, and offer access. The first unit historicizes Mother Courage through primary texts and secondary sources. The second thinks critically about archiving and how we ask cultural artifacts to stand for particular times and places. The third turns to reinventions of Mother Courage and the potential future of the past. Written and practical work. In English.