Short Plays · Character
Maurya
An old woman who has buried a husband and sons in the sea, and now holds the last one back with words no one will hear.
major
Also known as Maurya Continuing
First appearance: riders to the sea
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Maurya sits at the fire raking turf and prophesying doom while her son Bartley saddles a horse for the fair and her daughters hide a bundle from her. Her grief is not decorative — it is a lived arithmetic of drowned…
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Relationship types
- Family
- Other
Character groups
- Sea-tragedy family and tinkers
- Protagonist
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- Cathleen
family · ambivalent
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- Nora Burke
family · negative
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