《修女安魂曲》是威廉·福克纳的一部长篇小说，但实际上是一部三幕剧。这也是福克纳**的戏剧作品。故事的主角是曾于《圣殿》中出现的谭波尔，这时已嫁给葛文·史蒂文斯。她被旧日情人的弟弟手持往日的情书敲诈，违愿与其私奔。黑人女仆南茜不让谭波尔离开，杀死了她的孩子。谭波尔觉得错全在自己，向州长祈求赦免南茜的死罪，却终于失败。

This sequel to Faulkner's most sensational, Sanctuary, was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in Sanctuary. Temple is now married to Gowan Stevens. The book begins when the death sentence is pronounced on the nurse Nancy for the murder of Temple and Gowan's child. Told partly in prose, partly in play form, Requiem for a Nun is a haunting exploration of the impact of the past on the present.