Mother Courage
Mother Courage is a character from a Grimmelshausen novel Lebensbeschreibung der Ertzbetrügerin und Landstörtzerin Courasche 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 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.
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Cúruisce 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.
