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A dramatization of the passion of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a Mexican nun regarded as one of her country's greatest poets.
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First published January 1, 1988
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Mary Higgins Clark
629 books13.4k followersThe #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark has written thirty-eight suspense novels, four collections of short stories, a historical novel, a memoir, and two children’s books. With bestselling author Alafair Burke she wrote the Under Suspicion series. With her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, she has coauthored five more suspense novels. Her sister-in-law is the also author Mary Jane Clark.
Clark’s books have sold more than 100 million copies in the United States alone. Her books are beloved around the world and made her an international bestseller many times over.
Clark’s books have sold more than 100 million copies in the United States alone. Her books are beloved around the world and made her an international bestseller many times over.
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May 28, 2011
This play (which has never had a full production as far as I can tell, only a couple of staged readings) fictionalizes the later years of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. The genius of this seventeenth-century poet, and her destruction at the hands of the Church, make a subject that has tempted many fiction writers.
There's lots of fine language here. Diane Ackerman is a competent poet, and few writers can enthuse about the beauties of a tide pool as well as she can. Her sympathy with Sor Juana's interest in natural history and the sciences provides the best passages. But it's as drama, and especially as history, that this play fails to convince me. There's a scene where other nuns read and applaud Sor Juana's autobiography in a way that's too obviously a proxy for the author's and other modern readers' responses. There's at least one clear anachronism. But the overwhelming problem is that the play is overwhelmed by a wholly invented love affair that Ackerman chooses to make the center of the whole plot, even supposing that the transformation of Sor Juana's way of living in the final years of her life was nearly as much due to a broken heart as to whatever pressure the clerics put on her. Indeed, this provides a conventional sort of "plot", complete with last-minute reversal, which is ill-fitted to the subject -- the last scene does not escape bathos and the central character is lost in it.
There's lots of fine language here. Diane Ackerman is a competent poet, and few writers can enthuse about the beauties of a tide pool as well as she can. Her sympathy with Sor Juana's interest in natural history and the sciences provides the best passages. But it's as drama, and especially as history, that this play fails to convince me. There's a scene where other nuns read and applaud Sor Juana's autobiography in a way that's too obviously a proxy for the author's and other modern readers' responses. There's at least one clear anachronism. But the overwhelming problem is that the play is overwhelmed by a wholly invented love affair that Ackerman chooses to make the center of the whole plot, even supposing that the transformation of Sor Juana's way of living in the final years of her life was nearly as much due to a broken heart as to whatever pressure the clerics put on her. Indeed, this provides a conventional sort of "plot", complete with last-minute reversal, which is ill-fitted to the subject -- the last scene does not escape bathos and the central character is lost in it.
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