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Bertolt Brecht adapted a play by this author to the Spanish Civil War in his play Señora Carrar’s Rifles. Near the end of a play by this author, a woman laments that “I’ll have no call now to be going down and getting Holy Water in the dark nights” after receiving news of an event she foretold. (10[1])In that play by this author, Maurya sees her son riding a horse followed by (10[1])a (10[1])ghost as a sign of her last son’s impending death. (10[1])In another play by this author, an older man recognizes the protagonist after he wins a mule race. Christy Mahon impresses townspeople by (-5[1])claiming to have murdered his father (-5[1])in a play by this author that caused riots at the Abbey Theatre with a line about women in shifts. For 10 points, name this Irish author of (10[1])Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western (10[1])World. ■END■ (10[2])

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