by Pedro Calderón de la Barca · MESTAS Ediciones, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788489163508
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«La vida es sueño» is the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, published by MESTAS Ediciones, S.L. in paperback (128 pages, in Spanish).
King Basilio imprisons his son from birth because an oracle announces he will be a cruel king. To test fate, he brings him asleep to the palace; upon waking, Segismundo does not know whether what he experienced is dream or reality. The play dramatizes the conflict between free will and predestination, with the doubt between appearance and being as its axis.
This 1999 edition belongs to the Clásicos Universales collection (number 15) and is complete; the original work was published in 1635.
Ideal for literature students and for those who want to start in Golden Age theatre.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer. He is known as one of the most distinguished poets and writers of the Spanish Golden Age, especially for the many verse dramas he wrote for the theatre. Calderón has been termed "the Spanish Shakespeare", the national poet of Spain, and one of the greatest poets and playwrights in the history of world literature.
