The Cradle Song (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Gregorio Martínez Sierra, María de la O Lejárraga García
- First Published: 1917
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: A cloister of a convent in Spain
- Genres: Drama, Comedy, Tragedy, Tragicomedy
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, 1910’s, Feminism, Orphans or orphanages, Spain or Spanish people, Convents or nunneries, Nuns, Religious life
- Locales: Spain
Characters Discussed
The Prioress, the forty-year-old spiritual leader of the Dominican sisters in an enclosed Catholic convent in Spain. Wise and loving, she permits the young novices a relaxation of the strict rules of silence as they celebrate her birthday. Her birthday takes an unusual twist when an infant is left at the convent door. She, with the aid of the old doctor, determines in the name of God to rear the abandoned infant in the convent. Eighteen years later, in the second act, she gives the child, Teresa, her blessings as the young woman leaves the convent to...
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