Schubert, Manfred E.2016-04-222016-04-221968McStravick, Kathy Horne. "An anaylsis of Grimmelshausen's character, Coursache, with a comparison of Grimmelshausen's Courasche and Brecht's character Mother Courage." (1968) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/90084">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/90084</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/90084As Grimmelshausen wrote Trutz-Simplex: Oder Lebensbeschreibung der Ertzbetruegerin und Landstoertzerin Courasche he was drawing on a literary tradition which had recently arrived from Spain. This tradition coupled with the Thirty Years' War gave Grimmelshausen the needed resources for many of his writings -- especially Courasche. The novel, a mixture of picaresque and baroque styles, is set during the Thirty Years 1 War and gives a humorous and sad account of the period. This thesis is concerned with an analysis of Grimmelshausen's heroine, Courasche, and attempts to show the reasons behind Grimmelshausen*s success in using a picara or female rogue as his protagonist during a period in which women consistently remained in the background. A further analysis of Courasehe is attempted by comparing her with Bertolt Brecht's character, Mother Courage, in Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder and by showing the influences of Grimmelshausen on Brecht.60 ppengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.ThesisRICE1120reformatted digitalThesis Ger. 1968 McStravick