LA SUSANA, A FIFTEENTH CENTURY TRAGEDY. FINAL PART
In the course of her profession as a prostitute, La Susana bore several children, ( history does not record what became of them ) and as her beauty faded her noble customers lost interest in her, and she later went to live with a humble grocer in Seville. Dying in poverty, she asked that her skull be placed over the door of the house where she had been a prostitute. Whether this was to serve as a reminder of the sinful life that she had led, or of her great betrayal is not clear, but the skull... Sign in to see full entry.