The Spanish Student
Victorian, a student of Alcala, loves the dancer Preciosa, but Lara's lies and duplicate ring convince him that she has betrayed him; Lara also arranges a disruption that drives her from the stage. Learning of the plot, Victorian finds her in a Gypsy camp near Guadarrama and receives her forgiveness, while news arrives that she was stolen as a child and her father has returned to Spain. As they travel toward her father in Segovia, Bartolome, whose demand that she flee with him she has refused, fires at her, misses, and falls when the shot is returned.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Genre: Drama, Dramatic Poetry, Romance · 22 chapters · 26,335 words
First lines
Dramatis Personae
VICTORIAN / HYPOLITO - Students of Alcala.
Genres
- Drama — Named characters speak in successive scenes, with stage directions specifying entrances, dances, a duel, and the final exchange of gunfire.
- Dramatic Poetry — Victorian and Preciosa conduct their courtship, separation, and reconciliation chiefly in verse dialogue, interspersed with songs and prose exchanges.
- Romance — Victorian and Preciosa's mutual love survives Lara's fabricated evidence, Victorian's rejection, and Bartolome's competing claim upon her.
Tags
jealousy · slander · courtship · dancers · forced marriage · child abduction · Madrid · verse drama
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- Work type: Play
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Drama, Dramatic Poetry, Romance
- Length: 26,335 words
- Structure: 22 chapters, 859 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Easy (6th Grade)
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Contents
- Act I, Scene 1
- Act I, Scene 2
- Act I, Scene 3
- Act I, Scene 4
- Act I, Scene 5
- Act II, Scene 1
- Act II, Scene 2
- Act II, Scene 3
- Act II, Scene 4
- Act II, Scene 5
- Act II, Scene 6
- Act II, Scene 7
- Act II, Scene 8
- Act II, Scene 9
- Act II, Scene 10
- Act II, Scene 11
- Act III, Scene 1
- Act III, Scene 2
- Act III, Scene 3
- Act III, Scene 4
- Act III, Scene 5
- Act III, Scene 6