Mother Courage and Her Children - English Versions

English Versions

  • 1941 – H. R. Hays (translation) for New Directions Publishing
  • 1955 – Eric Bentley (translation) for Doubleday/Garden City
  • 1965 – Eric Bentley (translation) and W. H. Auden (songs translation) for the National Theatre, London
  • 1972 – Ralph Manheim (translation) for Random House/Pantheon Books
  • 1980 – John Willett (translation) for Methuen Publishing
  • 1980 – Ntozake Shange (adaptation) for New York Shakespeare Festival New York
  • 1984 – Hanif Kureishi (adaptation) and Sue Davies (songs translation) for the Barbican Centre, London (Samuel French Ltd.)
  • 1995 – David Hare (adaptation) for the Royal National Theatre, London (A & C Black, 1996)
  • 2000 – Lee Hall (adaptation) and Jan-Willem van Den Bosch (translation) for Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, England (Methuen Drama, 2003)
  • 2006 – Michael Hofmann (adaptation) and John Willett (songs translation) for the English Touring Theatre (A & C Black, 2006)
  • 2006 – Tony Kushner (adaptation) for The Public Theater, New York City, published in the form used in the 2009 Royal National Theatre production.

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