The masterwork of Spain’s preeminent dramatist—now in a new verse translationLife Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending themes of free will and predestination, illusion and reality, played out against the backdrop of court intrigue and the restoration of personal honor.
In the mountainous barrens of Poland, the rightful heir to the kingdom has been imprisoned since birth in an attempt by his father to thwart fate. Meanwhile, a noblewoman arrives to seek revenge against the man who deceived and forsook her love for the prospect of becoming king of Poland. Richly symbolic and metaphorical, Life Is a Dream explores the deepest mysteries of human experience. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Life Is a Dream (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA,PEDRO

Dramas & Plays

Penguin Publishing Group

There are two surviving versions of Calderón's play on the Faust theme, El mágico prodigiosos. The first, preserved in an incomplete autograph manuscript, was written for performance in the town of Yepes on the Feast of Corpus Christi in 1637, with staging appropriate for the traditional Corpus mystery play, the auto sacramental. The second, first published in 1663, is an adaptation for performance in the playhouses of Madrid. The circumstances of the play's textual identity are unique in the seventeenth-century Spanish theater and the purpose of this complete edition is to reveal in action not only the dramatist's developing vision but the imperatives of a remarkable commercial theater and its symbiotic relationship with the religious order of the day. At the same time, the opportunity has been taken to provide a study of the play and its two versions, its sources and its context; a lengthy introduction, extensive notes, and a full textual apparatus accompany the composite text.

El Mágico Prodigioso: A Composite Edition and Study of the Manuscript and Printed Versions

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Life's a dream: A play in three acts

H.Hamilton

Life in Mexico During a Residence of Two Years in That Country

Francis, Erskine

History

Ams Pr Inc

The most famous of all Calderon's varied and romantic dramas, this seventeenth-century masterpiece by the great Spanish playwright explores the conflict between free will and predestination as it focuses on the life of Segismundo, a Polish prince imprisoned at birth by his father, the King. The monarch's heartless action, precipitated by astrologers who predict the boy will one day usurp the throne, paves the way for a series of events that turn the son against the father and lead to rebellion. Years later, following a revolution and the peasants' seizure of power, the grim prophecy uttered at the Prince's birth threatens to become a painful reality. For this edition, Stanley Appelbaum has written an informative introduction and an excellent new literal translation that appears on pages facing the Spanish original. A valuable text for students of Spanish language and literature, this volume will delight any reader interested in classics from Spain's Golden Age of drama.

Life Is a Dream/La Vida es Sueño: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language Spanish)

Dover Publications

El Sitio de Breda (Spanish Edition)

BiblioBazaar

El Pintor de su Deshonra (Spanish Edition)

Amar despues de la muerte (Large Print Edition) (Spanish Edition)

Literary

BiblioLife

Amar despues de la muerte (Spanish Edition)

Los autos sacramentales son obras religiosas de carácter alegórico representadas sobre todo en España y Portugal durante el Corpus Christi. Este género ocupa un papel muy interesante en la tradición teatral de Occidente, pues coexistió, antes de desaparecer, con una incipiente y cada vez más popular narrativa escénica interesada en los individuos, y en los sucesos mundanos.

La Vida Es Sueno / Life is a Dream (Spanish Texts)

Manchester Univ Pr

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