Spark Notes
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, learners respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage. Students may check some of their answers online.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Bertolt Brecht
A very thorough biography on German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Discusses his upbringing, his career as a playwright, and his overall controversial life.
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German Culture: Famous Germans
Brief biographical profiles of famous Germans recognized worldwide in the arts, military, movies, politics, sciences, and sports.
British Library
British Library: 20th Century: Theatre Practitioners and Genres
From Stanislavski to Brecht and from Theatre of the Absurd to Theatre Workshop, explore some of the key influences and developments within 20th-century theatre practice.
British Library
British Library: 20th Century: Exploring Identity
Examine how writers have explored identity - through the prisms of ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality - in the modern world.
British Library
British Library: 20th Century: Capturing and Creating the Modern
Discover the ways in which writers captured the fast-changing world around them during the 20th Century.
British Library
British Library: 20th Century: Art, Music and Popular Culture
Discover the music, art, and popular culture that shook the world in the 20th century.
British Library
British Library: 20th Century: 20th Century Theatre
Find close readings, critical interpretations, and personal responses to the works of key 20th-century playwrights and practitioners, including Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Shelagh Delaney, and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
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British Library: 20th Century: European Influence
Discover how European cities were crucibles for modernist experimentation.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Live From Antiquity!
Intended to accompany a reading of Sophocles' _Antigone_, "Live From Antiquity!" provides framework for teaching the "cultural and historical context of Greek drama and its role in Greek society."