Life Is a Dream

Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Edward FitzGerald

• Publisher: libreka classics
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9783742924926
• Topic: Kunst
• Subtopic: Kunst Allgemein

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LIFE IS A DREAM

By Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Translated by Edward Fitzgerald

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Contents

INTRODUCTORY NOTE LIFE IS A DREAM ACT I SCENE I—A pass of rocks, over which a storm is rolling away, SCENE II.—The Palace at Warsaw ACT II SCENE I—A Throne-room in the Palace. Music within. ACT III. SCENE I.—The Tower, etc., as in Act I. Scene I. ACT IV. SCENE I.—A wooded pass near the field of battle:

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE

Pedro Calderon de la Barca was born in Madrid, January 17, 1600, of good family. He was educated at the Jesuit College in Madrid and at the University of Salamanca; and a doubtful tradition says that he began to write plays at the age of thirteen. His literary activity was interrupted for ten years, 1625-1635, by military service in Italy and the Low Countries, and again for a year or more in Catalonia. In 1637 he became a Knight of the Order of Santiago, and in 1651 he entered the priesthood, rising to the dignity of Superior of the Brotherhood of San Pedro in Madrid. He held various offices in the court of Philip IV, who rewarded his services with pensions, and had his plays produced with great splendor. He died May 5, 1681.

At the time when Calderon began to compose for the stage, the Spanish drama was at its height. Lope de Vega, the most prolific and, with Calderon, the greatest, of Spanish dramatists, was still alive; and by his applause gave encouragement to the beginner whose fame was to rival his own. The national type of drama which Lope had establi...