The King, the Greatest Alcalde (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Lope de Vega Carpio
- First Published: 1635
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Tragicomedy
- Time of Work: Sixteenth century
- Setting: Spain
- Genres: Drama, Tragicomedy
- Subjects: Power, personal or social, Sixteenth century, Spain or Spanish people, Peasantry or peasants, Honor, Nobility
- Locales: Spain
Characters Discussed
Sancho (SAHN-choh), a poor peasant of Spain who loves an equally poor girl, Elvira. Before he can marry her, she is abducted by the feudal lord, Don Tello. Sancho goes with Nuño, her father, to the castle to say they cannot believe a nobleman guilty of such a crime. They witness the lord’s evidence of outrage at such rumors, then Elvira appears to reveal his villainy. Sancho and Nuño flee to escape being beaten to death. Sancho gives in to despair in spite of Nuño’s certainty that his daughter would die rather than lose her honor.
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