Courage is one of most indomitable women in European literature and a feminist icon for our times.
Completely amoral, she flits from man to man, having a succession of husbands and.
A young girl caught up in the turmoil of the Thirty Years War, she survives, even prospers, by the use of her native cunning and sexual attraction.
The Life of Courage (first published in 1670), one episode from whose Life Brecht used as the basis for his Mother Courage, is the female counterpart to Simplicissimus.
Courage is one of most indomitable women in European literature and a feminist icon for our times