The Satin Slipper (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Claudel
- First Published: 1928
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Play of ideas
- Time of Work: Near the end of the sixteenth century
- Setting: Various countries in Europe, Africa, and Central and South America
- Genres: Drama, Problem play, History play
- Subjects: Values, Africa or Africans, Colonies or colonization, Europe or Europeans, Islam, Sixteenth century, Catholics or Catholic Church, Central America or Central Americans, South America or South Americans, Jesuits
- Locales: Africa, Europe, South America, Central America
Characters Discussed
Don Rodrigo (rrohd-REE-goh), a Spanish nobleman who loves Doña Prouheze, who is married to an elderly judge, Don Pelagio. Rodrigo’s desire to sleep with her is frustrated when she leaves for the African city of Mogador to represent Spanish interests there. As the years pass, Rodrigo becomes an amoral colonial administrator who ruthlessly exploits Indians in Central America. He travels to Mogador just before Prouheze dies. She tells him that religion has brought her extraordinary joy. Her stoic acceptance of death transforms Rodrigo into an altruistic...
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