Mother Courage

{{Inline|date=March 2019}}{{Short description|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){{cite web|url=https://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/1-buch-3-kapitel-5243/1|title=Kapitel 1 des Buches: 1. Buch 3. Kapitel von Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen - Projekt Gutenberg|first=SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg|last=Germany|website=gutenberg.spiegel.de}} dating from around 1670. The character had played a cameo role in Der abentheuerliche Simplicissimus{{cite book|last=Grimmelshausen|first=H. J. Chr.|title=Der abentheurliche Simplicissimus|trans-title=The adventurous Simplicissimus|language=de|url=http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/show/grimmelshausen_simplicissimus_1669|author-link=Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen|publication-place=Nuremberg|publisher=J. Fillion|year=1669|oclc=22567416}} 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.

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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.{{cite web|url=https://leabharbreac.com/ga/home.html|title=Leabhar Breac - Siopa Leabhar - Irish Language Book Shop - Leabhar Breac|last=ideabubble.ie|website=leabharbreac.com}}