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Inspired by Velázquez's baroque masterpiece, Las Meninas, The Queen's Prophet is an imagined accounts of the dwarfess Maribarbola of Spain (featured prominently in Velázquez's painting) and her have difficulty for survival and self-determination at the same time when dwarfs were maintained by aristocracy as pets, prophets, and good-luck charms. If the Countess of Walther dies at her German estate, her loyal dwarfess Maria-Barbara is compelled to are a prophet for a traveling magician, who betrays her by providing her to the queen of Spain. In the royal judge in Madrid, Mari discovers herself in a bizarre, enchanted world, a culture culturally marvelous but intellectually isolated. There she becomes Maribarbola, prophet to the queen, and, her survival at stake, endeavors to outsmart the Spaniards. Mari's wits and loyalties are analyzed as she becomes embroiled in palace intrigue alongside the politically embattled queen. When Mari's carefully schemed prophecies dazzle all of Spain, she and the queen climb to dizzying heights of power, a place as intoxicating as it is dangerous. But even as Mari survives and thrives at the Spanish judge, the increased loss of identity she suffers from living a lie makes her question whether she is absolutely surviving by any means.
