Overview
Character Name
The duenna
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Dancing
Non Dancer
Voice
Spoken
Time & Place
france, 1640
Analysis
Historically in French society, a _duenna _was a public chaperone for a young, unmarried woman. Roxane’s duenna is a loyal but easily distracted woman, pulled away from her close observations of Roxane by cakes at Ragueneau's shop or the poetry of the young men there. As
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