The Satin Slipper (A Drama Play)

By Paul Claudel

Product Code: 9781952826276

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The Satin Slipper is a sweeping drama set in the Spanish empire at the turn of the sixteenth century and infused with a heady mix of Catholic teaching and devotion. The play's colossal breadth centers on the love between the impassioned Rodrigo and the self-sacrificing Prouheze, wife of Rodrigo's ruthless adversary. Around his two primary subjects, Claudel weaves a vastly intricate tapestry of politics, metaphysics, and poignant lyricism, to express how “all things minister to a Divine Purpose and so to one another.… Even the falterings of circumstance and the patternings of personality, sin and falsehood, are made to serve truth and justice, and above all, salvation in the long run.”

Hailed as “Claudel’s single greatest achievement” and “the most remarkable of his dramas,” The Satin Slipper also holds the distinction of being recognized by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) as “a most convincing” depiction of the drama of faith and the intricacies of divine providence.

Paperback, 388 pages.