In the canon
Life Is a Dream
- Form
- Form Play
- Year
- Year 1635
- Originally in
- Originally in Spanish
- Pages
- Pages 120
A prince raised in a tower since birth wakes one morning in a palace, told he is heir to the kingdom of Poland, and the world he has known turns out to have been a rehearsal. Pedro Calderón de la Barca staged this play in Madrid in 1635, at the height of the Spanish Golden Age, working in the polished hendecasyllables and tight argument that defined Spanish baroque drama.
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