Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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Calderón de la Barca was born into the minor Spanish nobility in Madrid, where he lived for most of his life. He served as soldier and a knight of the military and religious Order of Santiago, but later became a Roman Catholic priest. His theatrical debut was a history play about the life of King Edward III of England, was first performed on 29 June 1623 at the Royal Alcázar of Madrid, during the surprise visit to Spain of Charles, Prince of Wales to negotiate for a dynastic marriage alliance with the Spanish Habsburgs.
As he continued writing verse dramas, Calderón's favorite theatrical genres included comedy of intrigue rooted in many of the same plot devices as Shakespeare's comedies, mystery plays illustrating the doctrine of Transubstantiation for performance during the Feast of Corpus Christi, and tragic theatre rooted in ethical dilemmas under the Spanish nobility's code of conduct. Born while the unwritten rules of Spanish Golden Age theatre were still being defined by Lope de Vega, Calderón pushed their limits even further by introducing radical and pioneering innovations that are now termed metafiction and surrealism.
His masterpiece, ''La Vida es Sueño'' ("Life is a Dream"), combines a beauty and the beast plotline, a disguised woman reminiscent of Viola from Shakespeare's ''Twelfth Night'', surrealist concepts, romantic complications, and the threat of a dynastic civil war, while exploring the philosophical question of whether each individual's fate has already been written without their involvement or if the future can be altered by free will.
Calderón's poetry and plays have since wielded an enormous global influence upon Romanticism, symbolism, literary modernism, expressionism, dystopian science fiction, and even postmodernism. His many admirers have included August Wilhelm Schlegel, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Dryden, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Fr. Félix Sardà y Salvany, Hugo von Hoffmannsthal, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Jorge Luis Borges, Konstantin Stanislavsky, and Boris Pasternak.
In 1881, the Royal Spanish Academy awarded a gold medal to Irish poet Denis Florence MacCarthy for his highly praised and accurate literary translations of Calderón's verse dramas into English. In 2021, a renewed search for Calderón's missing remains gained media attention worldwide. Provided by Wikipedia
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Obras / Calderón de la Barca. by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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Obras completas / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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El príncipe constante / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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Teatro : El príncipe constante. La vida es un sueño. El alcalde de Zalamea. Los encantos de la culpa / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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Teatro escogido / Calderón de la Barca. by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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La vida es sueño / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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La vida es sueño. El alcalde de Zalamea. El mágico prodigioso / Calderón de la Barca. by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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La vida es sueño. El alcalde de Zalamea / Calderón de la Barca. by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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El alcalde de Zalamea. La vida es un sueño / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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El sitio de Bredá : comedia de don Pedro Calderón de la Barca / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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Autos sacramentales / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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Teatro / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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La vida es sueño / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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La vida es sueño : drama en tres jornadas / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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Comedias mitológicas / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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El alcalde de Zalamea / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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La vida es sueño / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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El alcalde de Zalamea / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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El alcalde de Zalamea / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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