A play by this author features a ceremony in which the protagonist sells a telescope to the Venice arsenal.
A play by this author features a ceremony in which the protagonist sells a telescope to the Venice arsenal. That play by this author ends with Andrea smuggling a Discourse which the blind title character had written and hidden in a globe while under house arrest. A character created by this author tells fortunes by drawing black crosses from a helmet. In a play by this author, a girl obsesses over Yvette's red boots and is (*) shot off a roof for beating a drum to warn a town of approaching troops. This author of Galileo tried to prevent audience identification with characters in his "epic theater." In one of his plays, Swiss Cheese and Katrin are children of the title canteen wagon owner. For 10 points, name this playwright of Mother Courage and Her Children.
A play by this author features a ceremony in which the protagonist sells a telescope to the Venice arsenal.
Bertolt Brecht [or Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brecht]