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    Life's a Dream (La Vida es Sueño)
    Life's a Dream (La Vida es Sueño)
    Life's a Dream (La Vida es Sueño)
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    Life's a Dream (La Vida es Sueño)

    By Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Michael Kidd

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    A beautiful and haunting tale of love, betrayal, knowledge, and power, Life's a Dream (La vida es sueño, 1636) is the best known and most widely admired play of Catholic Europe's greatest dramatist, Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681). Calderón's long life witnessed both the pinnacle and collapse of Spanish political power as well as the great flowering of Spanish classical literature. Michael Kidd's new prose translation renders Calderón's masterpiece into a transparent, modern American idiom that preserves the beauty and complexity of Calderón's Baroque Spanish. The result is a highly readable and adaptable text that is enhanced by a generous selection of supporting materials, including a thorough critical introduction and glossary.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity Press of Colorado
    Release dateAug 15, 2004
    ISBN9780870818059
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