Life Is a Dream Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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A 17th-century allegory, which explores the mysteries of human destiny, the illusory nature of existence, and the struggle between predestination and free will.

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Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Considered one of the outstanding Spanish dramas of all time, this 17th-century allegory explores the mysteries of human destiny, the illusory nature of existence, and the struggle between predestination and free will.

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I have read about twelve of [Calderon's] plays; some of them certainly deserve to be ranked among the grandest and most perfect productions of the human mind. He exceeds all modern dramatists with the exception of Shakespeare. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

About Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681), Spanish dramatist, last important figure of the Spanish Golden Age. His more than 100 plays were carefully contrived, subtle, and rhetorical. His finest work is in his more than 70 autos sacramentales (one-act religious plays), among them El divino Orfeo and A Dios por razon de estado [to God for reasons of state]. Of his philosophical dramas the best known are El magico prodigioso [the wonderful magician] and La vida es sueno [life is a dream], which deals with the themes of fate, prognostication, and free will. Gragary J. Racz is associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at Long Island University, Brooklyn. His translation of the mock-Renaissance farce Rigmaroles appeared in Three Comedies, his edited volume of plays by the contemporary Spanish dramatist Jaime Salom. Racz has published works by the Cuban writer Jose Lezama Lima, the Peruvian Eduardo Chirinos, and the Argentine experimental XUL group.

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CIN0143104829G

ISBN 13

9780143104827

ISBN 10

0143104829

Title

Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Author

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Year published

20061226

Number of pages

160

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