The Devils (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Whiting
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: The seventeenth century
- Setting: France
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Values, France or French people, Sex or sexuality, Seventeenth century, Ethics, Clergy, Devils or demons, Torture, Priests, Convents or nunneries, Religious life
- Locales: France
Characters Discussed
Urbain Grandier (ur-BAYN grahn-DYAY), the vicar of St. Peter’s Church in Loudun, France. Grandier is a brilliant, proud, and sensuous man who is obviously superior, intellectually and emotionally, to most of his parishioners, yet he is a persistently religious person as well. He struggles with his libertine impulses and passionate appreciation of physical beauty, which threaten to deify flesh over spirit. He makes powerful enemies in a deliberate attempt to bring about his own destruction, to test his capacity for suffering and as a way of doing penance...
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