Round 3: Tossup 16

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. In that play by this author, Maurya sees her son riding a horse followed by a ghost (10[1])as a sign of her last son’s impending death. In another play by this author, an older man recognizes the protagonist after he wins a mule race. Christy Mahon impresses townspeople by claiming to have murdered his father in a play by this author that caused riots at the Abbey Theatre with a line (10[1])about women in shifts. For 10 points, name this Irish author of Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World. ■END■ (10[1]0[3])

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