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Life Is a Dream

Life Is a Dream

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro

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Publisher Price: $6.00

ISBN10: 0486421244
ISBN13: 9780486421247
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Jul 1 2002
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.28
Language: English

A product of the golden age of Spanish drama, Life Is a Dream (La vida es sueño) is the masterpiece of Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681), a contemporary of Lope de Vega and one of Spain's greatest literary figures.
Acclaimed for his superb dramatic instincts and philosophical seriousness as well as his extraordinary imagination, Calderón exercised his best qualities in this allegorical play, an exploration of the mysteries of human destiny, the illusory nature of earthly existence, and the struggle between predestination and free will. The story revolves around the moral dilemmas of a Polish prince, unjustly imprisoned by his suspicious father. Against a background of revolution, Calderón builds a dramatic edifice of outstanding theatricality, rich in symbolism and metaphor, expressed in magnificent poetry.

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