Calderon Plays 1: The Surgeon of Honour; Life is a Dream; Three Judgements in One (World Classics)

Calderon Plays 1: The Surgeon of Honour; Life is a Dream; Three Judgements in One (World Classics) image
ISBN-10:

0413634604

ISBN-13:

9780413634603

Released: Mar 11, 1991
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
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Description:

In recent years, the English-language theatre has rediscovered Calderón and a number of highly successful productions have been staged. These translations by Gwynne Edwards capture the ferocious spirit of his work in sharp and speakable translation



The three plays included here represent Calderon's most celebrated work, in which he explores the extent of man's freedom in a hierarchical society often bound by anachronistic codes of conduct. The plays are The Surgeon of Honour, described by Michael Billington as 'one of the most disquieting plays in all world drama ... a dark masterpiece', Life is a Dream, Calderón's most famous play, and Three Judgements in One, less well-known but one of his finest works."Calderon excels all modern dramatists with the exception of Shakespeare, whom he resembles in the depth of thought and subtlety of his writings" (Shelley)


























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