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Character from a Grimmelshausen novel

Mother Courage (German Mutter Courage) is a character from a Grimmelshausen novel Lebensbeschreibung der Ertzbetrügerin und Landstörtzerin Courasche (The Runagate Courage) dating from around 1670. The character had played a cameo role in Der abentheuerliche Simplicissimus in 1669.

The Bertolt Brecht play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Mother Courage and Her Children) gave her currency in the 20th century. Mother Courage is cast as a walking contradiction by Brecht. She is torn between protecting her children from the war and making a profit out of the war.

Mother Courage in the play Mutter Courage in the movie Camping Cosmos.

Cúruisce (Courasche) appears in Ireland as a fictional character in Darach Ó Scolaí's Irish language novel An Cléireach. After travelling from Flanders in the company of a junior officer in the Tyrone regiment she serves in 1650 as a camp follower of the regiment of colonel Edmund O'Flaherty in the Royalist army.

References

  1. Germany, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg. "Kapitel 1 des Buches: 1. Buch 3. Kapitel von Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen - Projekt Gutenberg". gutenberg.spiegel.de.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Grimmelshausen, H. J. Chr. (1669). Der abentheurliche Simplicissimus [The adventurous Simplicissimus] (in German). Nuremberg: J. Fillion. OCLC 22567416.
  3. ideabubble.ie. "Leabhar Breac - Siopa Leabhar - Irish Language Book Shop - Leabhar Breac". leabharbreac.com.

Sources

  • Cara M. Horwich (1997), Survival in Simplicissimus and Mutter Courage
  • John W. Jacobson, A Defense of Grimmelshausen's Courasche, The German Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Jan., 1968), pp. 42–54


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