The Fake Astrologer (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Pedro Calderón de laBarca
- First Published: 1633
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Farce
- Time of Work: Seventeenth century
- Setting: Madrid
- Principal Characters: María, Juan de Medrano, Don Carlos, Don Diego, Morón, Beatriz, Leonardo, Doña Violante
- Genres: Drama, Farce
- Subjects: Love or romance, War, Seventeenth century, Criticism, Servants, Spain or Spanish people, Nobility
- Locales: Madrid, Spain
The Story:
Looking from the balcony of her Madrid home, María watched Juan de Medrano ride by, courting her from a distance as he had been doing for two years, and she was moved to confess to her servant Beatriz that she much preferred him to the more aggressive Don Diego. Juan was at last tired of seeing María only at a distance. That afternoon he came to call, with the excuse that next day he was leaving for the wars in Flanders. María postponed their farewells until that night, when Beatriz would bring Juan to her.
Don Diego too had decided on direct action. He...
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Drama)Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Poetry)Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Dictionary of World Biography)
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