Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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| Title | : | La vida es sueño |
| Author | : | Pedro Calderón de la Barca |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 207 pages |
| Published | : | 2001 by Cátedra (first published 1636) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Classics. Drama. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Theatre. Fiction. Academic. School |
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He aquí la creación más lograda y de carácter más universal de Calderón. La vida es sueño es, en síntesis, la plasmación barroca de la idea de la fugacidad de la vida con todos los aditamentos geniales de construcción, caracteres y estilo que el autor supo imprimirle. Con este pesimismo radical sobre el valor de la vida humana se interfiere el libre albedrío como afirmación personal de Segismundo —“¿y teniendo yo más vida / tengo menos libertad?”—. Estos dos principios combinados crean una riqueza enorme de sentidos, que en esta edición son desmenuzados críticamente por Ciriaco Morón Arroyo.
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| Original Title: | La vida es sueño |
| ISBN: | 8437600928 (ISBN13: 9788437600925) |
| Edition Language: | Spanish |
| Characters: | Segismundo, Rosaura, Basílio |
| Setting: | Poland |
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I read the Project Gutenberg edition that is translated by Denis Florence MacCarthy which is fabulous. He finds a unique voice for each character and maintains excellent dramatic tension throughout. He finishes with a marvelous rendition of Sigismund's monologue.Here is another first for me: my first dive into the wild and horrifying world of Spanish Golden Age drama, brought to me by the most famous play of the most renowned poet of probably the most prodigious century for commercial theatre in world history. After putting it off for years, I finally read Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Life is a Dream, translated from the Spanish into elegant rhymed pentameter by Dr. Gregary J. Racz. Coming in to this, I have a general familiarity with the course of
This book has to be the most amazing play that I've ever read. There are those that say that Pedro Calderon is second only to the great William Shakespeare, in terms of playwright, but I have to say that I think that Pedro's writing at the very least matches Shakespeare.Don't get me wrong. When properly translated, Shakespearian writing can have a profound and powerful effect the likes of which are scarcely recreated in contemporary writing, but I feel the same can be said of Pedro Calderon.I
Sueña el rico en su riqueza,que más cuidados le ofrece;sueña el pobre que padecesu miseria y su pobreza Here is another classic play from Spains Golden Age. Calderón de la Barca is sometimes considered to be Lope de Vegas successora man who took Spanish theater in the direction of refinement and sophistication. Lope de Vegas plays, for all of their formal accoutrements, are rather simple human dramas; while Calderón was attracted to more philosophical themes. This play, his most famous, is
I stumbled across this play when looking for quotes relating life and dream. I found it on Gutenberg, read the first few pages, and thereafter I was charmed.Sigismund is Prince and heir to the throne of Poland. It is prophesied that he will have a violent, cruel nature and is therefore imprisoned by his father, the King, in a tower where he grows up under a caretakers guidance. The play begins when Sigismund is a young man, and the King decides to test Sigismund's nature by letting him into the
This play was first published in the 1600's in Spain. The translation I read at Project Gutenberg was published in 1873. The introduction by the translator included this information:A note by Hartzenbusch in the last edition of the drama published at Madrid (1872), tells that "La Vida es Sueno", is founded on a story which turns out to be substantially the same as that with which English students are familiar as the foundation of the famous Induction to the "Taming of the Shrew". Calderon found
From de la Barca I was recommended by Ford Maddox Ford the following two titles which I'm clearly incompetent to identify. Any help? I'll also accept corrections of FMF's rec's.La Hermosura de AngelicusLa Dorotea
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