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Mother Courage, with her cart and children, has been following the troops and selling her goods.
Scene 1Mother Courage comes up with a devious plan to buy imprisoned Swiss Cheese's life.
Scene 3Fearing reprisals, Mother Courage decides against complaining about vandalism to her cart.
Scene 4Now rich, Yvette arrives and recognizes the cook as the man who abandoned her and broke her heart.
Scene 8The cook and the chaplain vow not to tell Mother Courage what happened to Eilif.
Scene 8Mother Courage refuses the cook's offer to work with him at the inn he inherited.
Scene 9While Mother Courage buys supplies, Kattrin is shot for trying to warn of the enemy's arrival.
Scene 11Mother Courage pays the peasants to attend to Kattrin's body and returns to business.
Scene 12| Scene | Summary |
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| Scene 1 | It is spring 1624. An army recruiter and sergeant stand shivering on the road. Dejected about his failing numbers, the r... Read More |
| Scene 2 | Two years pass. In the general's tent Mother Courage is haggling with the cook over the price of a capon. As they argue,... Read More |
| Scene 3 | Three years later Mother Courage is traveling alongside the Finnish regiment. Swiss Cheese has taken a job as paymaster,... Read More |
| Scene 4 | Shortly after Swiss Cheese's death, Mother Courage approaches an officer's tent to make a complaint about her cart being... Read More |
| Scene 5 | Two years of the interminable war have passed. Mother Courage, with her daughter and her cart, has traveled extensively ... Read More |
| Scene 6 | A year later commander in chief Tilly of the Imperial Catholic forces, who led the victory in the previous scene, has di... Read More |
| Scene 7 | Shortly after, Mother Courage's business has picked up. With her cart full of new items, she wears a silver necklace as ... Read More |
| Scene 8 | A young man and his elderly mother awaken Mother Courage hoping to sell her their bed sheets. In the distance bells ring... Read More |
| Scene 9 | The following autumn ushers in a harsh winter. With business down, Mother Courage and the cook struggle to survive. They... Read More |
| Scene 10 | As they pull the cart through the central part of Germany, Mother Courage and Kattrin pass a peasant's house. From insid... Read More |
| Scene 11 | Twelve years have now passed since the play began, and two years since Mother Courage parted company with the cook. Moth... Read More |
| Scene 12 | Mother Courage stands over Kattrin's body. The peasant family begs her to leave before the next regiment arrives. They p... Read More |
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