The Spanish Friar (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Dryden
- First Published: 1681
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragicomedy
- Time of Work: Fifteenth century
- Setting: Aragon, Spain
- Principal Characters: Torrismond, Leonora, Bertran, Raymond, Dominic, Lorenzo, Gomez, Elvira
- Genres: Drama, Comedy, Tragedy, Tragicomedy
- Subjects: Love or romance, Women, Kings, queens, or royalty, Fifteenth century, Catholics or Catholic Church, Middle Ages, Priests, Spain or Spanish people
- Locales: Spain, Aragon, Spain
The Story:
Aragon was in a state of siege because the usurper king, lately dead, had refused to acknowledge and reward the services of the Moors in gaining the kingdom for him. Queen Leonora, promised on her father’s deathbed to Duke Bertran, regretted this alliance as well as the fact she held in a dungeon the deposed King Sancho, a righteous and beloved ruler. Bertran’s forces had been routed three times by the Moors before Torrismond, supposed son of Raymond, one of the leading nobles, rallied the scattered Christians and saved the kingdom from the infidels.
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