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Starring on the Penguin Classics stage are the authorized, definitive editions of Bertolt Brecht's greatest plays, The Threepenny Opera and Mother Courage and Her Children. Here are the acclaimed Manheim/Willett translations with new forewords by Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer and Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis, and new introductions by Brecht scholar Norman Roessler. With striking covers, each book also contains Brecht's own notes and extensive editorial commentary by Ralph Manheim and John Willett.