Life's a dream /
"Life's a Dream (La vida es sueno, 1636) is the best known and most widely admired play of Catholic Europe's greatest dramatist, Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Calderon's long life (1600-1681) witnessed both the pinnacle and collapse of Spanish political power as well as the great f...
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Language: | English Spanish |
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Boulder, Colo. :
University Press of Colorado,
2004
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Spain at the turn of the century (1600) ; The Spanish comedia ; Calderón the man : a brief chronology ; Life's a dream : analysis and interpretation
- Translator's notes. Dialect ; Historicity ; Medium : verse vs. prose ; Scene boundaries ; Proper names ; Wordplay ; Textual variants and obscurities
- Suggestions for directors
- Selected bibliography
- Life's a dream : a prose translation.